HIST 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Cotton Gin, Oliver Evans, U.S. Route 3
16 May 2016
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Market revolution- expansion and integration of markets: the american industrial revolution. 1790-1820 industrial revolution in us: the division of labor and the factory. Increased efficiency through outwork system and a division of labor. Modern factory for items that could not be produced through outwork. Oliver evans, deleware inventor, built highly automated flour mill driven by water power. 1830s- stationary steam engines: the textile industry and british competition. British government prohibited export of textile machinery or emigration of mechanics. British mechanics disguised themselves and snuck into the us: american and british advantages. British had advantage because of low transatlantic shipping rates and interest. 1816 tariff protected american manufactures from low-cost textiles b. Cabot lowell took detailed notes and paul moody rebuilt british machines in the us: american mechanics and technological innovation. 1820s- american born artisans replaced british immigrants at the cutting edge of technological innovation: eli whitney and machine tools. Invented cotton gin: entrepreneurial energy unleashed.
