This document discusses several key factors that contributed to the industrialization of the United States in the 19th century, including improvements to transportation infrastructure like the Erie Canal and National Road, the use of steam power and new technologies like interchangeable parts, and a business environment defined by free enterprise, private property rights, and limited liability that encouraged investment and experimentation. Rapid urbanization created new problems for cities to address as the population grew.

1.  Erie Canal
 National Road
 Steamboats and Canals
 Iron Horse

2.  Free enterprise based on private property rights
 Acquire capital and use it- no government
intervention and the passage of general incorporation
laws.
 Allowed experimentation with new technologies
 Increased competition
 Low taxes = money to invest
 General Incorporation Laws
 Limited liability

3.  Stony soil discouraged farming and made manufacturing
more attractive.
 Relatively dense population provided labor
 Shipping brought in capital while seaports made easy
imports and exports.
 Rapid rivers provided abundant water power.

4.  Who is Who
 Sam Slater
 "Father of the Factory System“
 Francis Lowell
 Growth of cities
 Rapid urbanization created an array of problems

5.  Increased the industrial growth in the U.S.
 Interchangeable parts
 Eli Whitney
 Impact of the cotton gin (changed America
and the world)
 Samuel Morse
 Telegraph -"What hath God wrought?"

6. Accounted for largest % of population increase
1.Germans
2.Catholic southern Irish
Gains for workers
Laboring men get voting rights.
Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)
Agriculture still leading economic activity