Industrialization
by Abby Bridwell
1. Steamboat
2. Railroads increased
2.1. Slave Labor built the railroads
3. American Dream
4. prices went up!
5. Change in how Businesses were ran
5.1. Unions
5.2. Business Friendly Climate
6. Poor were poor, and rich were rich
7. Textile loom
8. First Turnpike
8.1. By 1832, nearly 2400 miles of road connected most major cities
9. Covered Wagons
9.1. Conestoga Trail
10. Erie Canal
10.1. Increased waterway transportation
11. Inventions
11.1. Cotton Gin
11.2. Locomotives
11.3. Steel Plow
11.4. Mechanical Reaper
11.5. Telegraph
11.6. Transatlantic Cable
12. Regional Specialization
12.1. East
12.1.1. Industrial
12.2. South
12.2.1. Cotton and Slavery
12.3. West
12.3.1. The Nation's "Breadbasket"