THE EARLY AMERICAN ECONOMY

National Market

The sale of goods to other

countries with set rules and

regulations.

Boosted the American Economy by exporting and selling goods to other countries.

National Market.

The National Market was what

really kick started the American economy.

It opened the doors for National Trade and for the South to export goods like tobacco and cotton all over the world.

Invention of the Cotton Gin Machine used to separate

cotton seeds from the fiber.

Made the process a lot faster therefore making cotton more profitable and calling for more slave labor

The Cotton Gin

The Cotton Gin had a good and bad side.

The good was that cotton was made more profitable and it was easier to process.

The bad thing was that this allowed farmers to plant more cotton and this would increase the need for slavery.

The Steel Plow

First used in the Mid-West

where the soil was harder and

wooden plows kept breaking.

Created by John Deere

The first plow was made from a blade saw and he tested it on many different types of soil.

The Steel Plow

The invention of the steel plow really opened a lot of doors for agricultural inventions to grow.

Many different inventions such as cultivators, and tillers, were based and evolved off of the original invention of the steel plow.

The Mechanical Reaper Created a labor saving

implement to harvest

wheat.

Continued to change the

design of the Reaper and

market it to increase sales.

Cyrus McCormick was the inventor of the Mechanical Reaper.

The Mechanical Reaper

Cyrus’s father actually had the idea of a Mechanical Reaper.

After his father died he patented the idea.

He set up a shop and tried to industrialize his idea.

The Invention of the Telegraph

Created by Samuel Morse.

Allowed people to communicate with each other in different towns and cities.

Used a special type of code called “Morse Code” to communicate.

Cotton Kingdom in the South When tobacco prices

plummeted cotton was on

the rise and became the

main crop of the South.

When the cotton based economy boomed so did the rise of slavery.

Cotton in the South

Cotton was the main support of the Southern Economy.

At the time the South was the

largest cotton

exporter in the world.

Nativism

Many citizens were not happy about the foreigners moving into the United States and taking jobs that would otherwise be there for them and their children.

It was common for foreigners to be mistreated by United States Citizens because for lack of another word they were jealous.

Nativism

I understand where the American Citizens were coming from, but they way they treated the foreigners was wrong.

The Americans went as far as physical harm and murder to deter foreigners from taking jobs in the United States.