March 28

Transportation Innovations Turn Pikes were replaced by canals in less than twenty less twenty. River Team boats came to prominence in 1836. New Orleans become the biggest southern port thanks to steamboats. The Panic of !837 stopped canal building, railroads out distanced canals by 1840. Clipper ships began in 1845, they were sleek and fast. Chinese tea made these profitable. The gold rush of 1849 also helped. Early American Textile The embargo and war grew manufacturing. Sam Slater began America’s industrial revolution. In 1790 he starts the first American mill in Paultucket. The Lowel system created a lifestyle around the mill. There were no working regulations. Elias Howe Invents the sowing machine. It takes the workplace to the home. Irish Immigrants Post 1815 Irish came, they wanted to escape British rule. There was a potato famine in 1849. The average life expectancy was 19. They avoided the south. They were cheap irish bitches all da english pimps be effing up da christmas so da irish bitches came to teh US Ho. The free hommies and the Irish did not get along. The Irish wanted to be like Andrew Jackson because he slap all da bitch niggas like it was 1776 with James Monroe.