Early
Industrialization
Post-Revolutionary
generation
Panic
of 1819
Tariffs
(see lecture on Jacksonian politics)
Stay
Laws
Transportation
Revolution
Robert Fulton, Clermont, 1807
Steam ships
National Road
Cumberland, MD, to Wheeling,
Virginia
Erie Canal
$100 a ton to $5 a ton
Railroad
Peter Cooper
Tom Thumb, 1830
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Agriculture
Cotton
Cotton gin
Ely Whitney
McCormick Reaper
American
System of Manufacturing
Interchangeable parts
Whitney
Springfield,
MA
Harper’s Ferry
Colt
Lowell
System
“Manchester of America”
Cincinnati
– frontier and industry
Riverboats
Iron manufacturing
Porkopolis
247,000 hogs, mid 1840s