• Shift in production of manufactured goods from cottage industries (people making things in their homes) to factories that employed many people and produced goods in mass quantities
• Began in late 1700s and into the early 1800s in the United States
• Mainly in the Northeast

• New methods of transportation introduced in the early to mid 1800s
• Included roads, turnpikes, steamboats, and steam-powered locomotives (trains)
• Allowed for faster transportation of people and
  goods and “shrunk” the country

• New method of communication using Morse code (dots and dashes)

• Allowed for almost instant
  communication

Urbanization

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• Growth of cities

• Caused by industrialization and increased immigration

• Less people needed inagriculture because of new technologies led to growth of cities also

• With the invention of the cotton gin, cotton production in the South boomed

• Cotton became themost-grown crop in the South, leading to an increase in the number of slaves in the South

Northern Industrialization

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• While the North focused on increased industrialization and more factories, the South continued to focus on agriculture
• This difference between the North and South in terms of their ability toproduce manufactured goods would play a HUGE role in the Civil War because the North could produce military supplies quickly and in great quantities, while the South would struggle to keep up