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Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
Samuel F.B. Morse
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
 

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Chapter 11 : National and Regional Growth

Chapter Objective
The student will analyze the ways in which new machines changed American society, encouraged the expansion of slavery, and contributed to both nationalism and sectionalism in the first half of the 1800s.

Section 1 Early Industry and Inventions

• To explain how the Industrial Revolution began
• To describe the role of the factory system and interchangeable parts
• To identify inventions that improved transportation and communication
• To explain increased farm production

Lowell National Historical Park http://www.nps.gov/ lowe/ home.htm
This site describes the park's offerings, which include historic textile mills, boardinghouses, and canals. Brochures on such subjects as mill girls and the Merrimack River are available, as is a good list of books about Lowell.

Modern History Sourcebook: Harriet Robinson http://www.fordham.edu/ halsall/ mod/ robinson-lowell.html
An account of life in the Lowell mills by a woman who worked there as a child.

Eli Whitney Museum http://www.eliwhitney.org/ main.htm
This museum site includes biographical essays on Whitney, pictures of his inventions and factory, descriptions of projects for student inventors, and more.

Steam Engine Library http://www.history.rochester.edu/ steam/
Illustrated online books relating to the history of the steam engine. One is a biography of Robert Fulton.

Section 2 Plantations and Slavery Spread

• To explain the relationship between the cotton boom and slavery
• To analyze the important divisions within Southern society
• To describe African-American culture and family life under slavery
• To summarize information about slave rebellions

North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920 http://metalab.unc.edu/ docsouth/ neh/ neh.html
Electronic texts of more than 100 slave narratives, including the Confessions of Nat Turner.

Africans in America, Part 3 http://www.pbs.org/ wgbh/ aia/ part3/ narrative.html
This companion site to the PBS Africans in America series offers more background on slavery, slave rebellions, and African-American culture in the early 19th century.

Negro Spirituals http://afroamhistory.about.com/ library/ blthomas_higginson_spirituals.htm
An 1867 essay on spirituals by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who heard them sung in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Includes many lyrics.

Section 3 Nationalism and Sectionalism

• To describe efforts to make the United States self-sufficient and to improve transportation
• To explain the growth of national unity and the settling of boundaries
• To analyze sectional tensions and the compromises that lessened them
• To explain the Monroe Doctrine

Section 3: Nationalism and Sectionalism

History of the Erie Canal http://www.history.rochester.edu/ canal
University of Rochester Department of History site offering links to pages on various aspects of the history of the Erie Canal.

Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate http://www.henryclay.org/ index.htm
In addition to information about Clay's home, this site contains a detailed biography of Clay and comments by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor about Clay's influence on the Supreme Court.

Interdisciplinary Challenge: Textile Mills

Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American Textile History http://invention.smithsonian.org/ centerpieces/ whole_cloth/ u2ei/ index.html
A collection of interdisciplinary units sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. Unit 2, Early Industrialization, contains essays, images, and activities on such topics as the cotton gin, early factories, water power, pollution, and labor relations.

Lowell Documents http://www.kentlaw.edu/ ilhs/ lowell.html
Factory and boardinghouse rules from the 1848 Handbook to Lowell and testimony about the difficult working conditions at Lowell.

 

Primary Source Explorer: The Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine http://gi.grolier.com/ presidents/ ea/ side/ mondoc.html
Article giving background on the Monroe Doctrine, from the online Encyclopedia Americana.

Conner Prairie: History Online http://www.connerprairie.org/ HistoryOnline/ index.asp
Links to full-text articles on early 19th-century life in Indiana, and the midwest, including articles on the National Road, western immigration, and farming.

Library of Congress Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ frd/ cs/
A series of online books analyzing foreign countries, with chapters on their histories. Latin American countries are included.

Victorian Farming: (Museum of English Rural Life)
   1700-1800 Farm implements before industrialization
   1790-1850 The rise of agricultural engineering