manifest destiny, industrial rev, worlds of the north south

• Causes of the Industrial Revolution

  • Technology
  • Good water ways
  • Transportation
• Manifest destiny


  Expansion to the west
• How the US acquired land and territories

  • Wars
  • Treaties
  • Annexation
  • Bought
• Louisiana purchase


  Land bought in 1803 from France that doubled the size of the US
• Lewis and clark expedition

  Hired by jefferson to explore the new territory and find a water route to the pacific ocean
• Challenges of westward overland travel

  • Leaving at the right time to avoid bad weather
  • Having enough food and water supply for the trip
  • Not getting sick or hurt
  • Going in the right direction
• Industrial Revolution


  • Immigration for cheap labor
  • Technological advances
  • Fueled by transportation revolution
• Lowell Mills


  • Employed young unmarried girls
  • In the north
  • Worked 6 days a week
  • Lived in boarding houses
• Technology of the Industrial Revolution

  • Cotton gin
  • Plow
  • Telegraph
• Transportation improvements of the 19th century

  • Steamboats
  • Canals
  • Railroads
• Immigration trends and attitudes of the mid 19th century


  • Immigration provided more work force for the north
  • Mostly irish and german
  • Cheap labor
• Geographic differences between North and South

  • North: Long winters, shorter summers
  • South: Mild winters, long hot summers
• Economic differences between North and South

  • North: Manufacturing
  • South: Most were agrarians, farmed their own land, or had land and slaves farmed for them
• Social differences between North and South

  • North: Unmarried girls from farm life, immigrants
  • South: Few rich "farmer", white people who worked on their own farm, and slaves