Yankee Industry Northern Industrialization Not This Yankee Farming

Yankee Industry Northern Industrialization

Not This Yankee

Farming in the North • Ideal for corn, wheat, and other types of grains • John Deere developed a steel plow • Cyrus Mc. Cormick invented the mechanical reaper

Not So Grim Reaper

Farming 2 • Grains spoiled quickly • Had to get them to market or use them in other ways • Used corn to feed pigs • Wheat, oats, barley, and corn to brewers and distillers

The Brew Crew

Farming 3 • Slaughterhouses, distilleries, shipping companies, and banks built to help out farmers • Cincinnati called Porkopolis • Farmers sent flour, meal, pork products and whiskey by river

Porkville, Ohio

Northwest Industry • Increasing number of people worked in urban areas • Industrialization increased rapidly in Northeast • 1850: more people in CT work in manufacturing than farming

Last of His Breed

Industry 2 • Coal from Pennsylvania • Fueled steam engines on boats and locomotives • Also produced ships, lumber, iron, leather, textiles and glass in Pennsylvania

Not Your Ordinary Thief

Industry 3 • Massachusetts: carpet, bricks, and shoes • New England mills hired young, unmarried women to work machines for spinning and weaving

Way To Earn Money

Women Employees • Work for less than men • Earned 2 dollars per week • Held factory positions until 1840 s • Irish immigrant males then took over

No Bamboo?

City Growth • 1810: 6% of Americans live in cities • 1840: 12% • New York City: 33, 000 in 1790 to 131, 000 in 1820 to 516, 000 by 1850.

Never Sleeps