1. Election of 1836
• A new political party appears – Whigs
• Whigs run three candidates in hope the vote
will have to go to the House
• Plan backfires
• Martin Van Buren wins

3. Election of 1840
• Van Buran vs. William Henry Harrison
• Harrison wins and gives long speech
• Dies from pneumonia just 4 weeks after taking
office
• John Tyler is now president

5. • Whig party turn from him
• All his cabinet resigns

6. Election of 1844
• James K Polk is elected for the Whigs

7. Changing American Life

8. TRANSPORTATION
• Need roads to go west
• Wilderness Road
– Daniel Boone helped
with this road
– First federally funded
highway

10. • Travel by water was difficult
• Steamboat was invented
– Robert Fulton

12. • Use of canals
• Canal – shallow, manmade water highway that
connects two bodies of water
• Erie Canal was most famous

13. • Railroads
– Peter Cooper did
first major trial of
railroad
– Better travel than
the canals

15. COMMUNICATION
• Telegraph
– Samuel F. B. Morse invented it
– Came about because of a need from the railroads
– Used during the Mexican War

17. INDUSTRY
• Industrial Revolution
– Happened in the North first
• Factory System
– Collect many workers in one place and turn out
many similar items in one day
– Britain forbade anyone with knowledge of
factories to leave Britain.

19. • Samuel Slater
– Left England to come to US with knowledge

20. • Elias Howe and Isaac Singer
– Created sewing machine

23. Singer

24. Eli Whitney
• Created
interchangeable
parts for his gun
production

25. AGRICULTURE
• New equipment enabled the farmer to
improve methods and lower costs

26. • John Deere
– Created the steel
plow

29. • Cyrus McCormick
– Created the reaper,
which cut and
harvested grain

32. • Eli Whitney
– Created cotton gin which cleaned cotton quickly