What inventions and technologies have made your life more enjoyable? Why?

Journal Entry for 1-25-2010

U.S. Markets Expand

• By mid-1800s, Northeast was more industrialized• Workers spent money on goods made by

other workers (instead of ?)

• Farmers specialized in one/two cash crops

• Market revolution• Ppl bought and sold goods rather than

making themselves

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Entrepreneurial Spirit

• Capitalism: individuals and private businesses control the means of production (Land, machines, factories) and earn profit from them

• Entrepreneurs invested money in industries

Chapter 9, Section 1

New Inventions

• Charles Goodyear: vulcanized rubber

• Elias Howe: sewing machine• I.M.Singer: foot treadle• Samuel F.B. Morse: telegraph• John Deere: Steel plow• Cyrus McCormick: mechanical

reaperChapter 9, Section 1

Economic Revolution

• Telegraph used to communicate cross-country• Businesses, railroads, individuals used it

• Steamships and canals improved transportation• Speed from one place to another and

connected places• Railroads

• Speed• Ran year-round, reached more areas than

canals/rivers

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New Markets Link Regions

• Regions specialized in products• S: cotton to NE and England• W: grain and livestock to E and Europe• E: manufactured textiles and machinery

• S agriculture: money in land and slaves• No capital for industrialization

• NE shipping and manufacturing: increased manufacturing, cities (NYC) centers of trade

• Midwest: farming made easier w/ inventions of steel plow and reaper.

Chapter 9, Section 1

Frontier Draws Settlers

• Manifest destiny • Americans believed the country was

destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans

• Frontier offers a new start• Escape personal economic problems• Opportunity to own land• New business opportunities

Chapter 9 Section 2

Settlers and Native Americans• Native Americans react to

encroaching settlers• Forced to move off land• Assimilated• Fought over land

• Oregon Trail• Route from MO to OR traveled by

groups of settlers in the early 1800s

Chapter 9 Section 2