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Samuel Slater entered the US and built the first successful water powered mill bringing new ideas to the US

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In 1798 Eli Whitney began production of muskets in the first factory with interchangeable parts which allowed for factories and soldiers to have less downtime as they could just slot in spare parts

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The war of 1812 helped the economy because the British blockade made the americans rely on their own manufacturing

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Market forces determined what you should invest in and how much you were payed, and affected americans in several ways

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Lowell mills, invented by Francis Cabot Lowell, took cotton, turned it into thread and wove it into cloth in the same building, which made the production of cloth much faster

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In 1825 Jethro Wood began to make iron plows with replaceable parts which helped farmers plow their fields more quickly and easily

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"Lowell Girls" were girls hired from farms and would work a few years in the mills before leaving to marry, and made up most of the work force at the Lowell Mills

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Children used to work in mills and factories, and small children could change parts in large machines, and their wages supported the family

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Invented by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1844 the telegraph or "talking wire" could use a system of dots, dashes and spaces to quickly send messages over long distances bringing news for coast to coast much faster

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By 1850 15% of Americans lived in cities after moving out of farms and rural areas, and now more americans would shop and live together