Apush Notes

1 Transportation: North vs. South

Erie Canal completed 1825

One of several canals in North linking western farmers with eastern manufacturers

Few canals build in South. South grew enough to feed itself.

South relied on Atlantic shipping to send cotton North, then get manufactured goods

Isolation of South kept it from modernizing and improving its standard of living like the North and the West

Northern manufacturers shipped most of their manufactured products to the West

West grew rich on North’s purchase of Western grain

Much better transportation in North than in South

North’s advantage over South in canals, roads, railroads was major factor in the Civil War

Railroads

Allowed people and goods to move more quickly and cheaply

Most early rail lines found on East Coast, Midwest

The Telegraph

Long distance communication revolutionized by Samuel Morse’s invention of telegraph in 1835

        Morse also invented Morse Code, language for communication by telegraph

First transatlantic cable laid across the ocean in 1857, allowing rapid communication between the U.S. and Europe by telegraph

Economic and Social Developments in Antebellum America (1790-1860)

        Antebellum=pre-Civil War (1790-1860)

                Transportation Revolution (early 1800s)

1st half of 19th century produces inventions and innovations that lead to revolution in transportation

                                steamboats invented by Robert Fulton

regular steamboat service set up on major river systems of the U.S.

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                                roadbuilding

network of privately-owned toll roads (turnpikes) spread from big cities

        turnpikes are nucleus of road system

                                canals

Erui Canal built in 1825 (labeled “Clinton’s Ditch” to mock the champion of project, Gov. Clinton).

Canals built to connect Eastern cities to Western farms; lots of public funding used for internal improvements

                                New York City becomes hub of growing nation.

English immigrant Samuel Slater builds first industrial factory in U.S. for cotton-spinning.

        Contains all the elements of production under        one roof