Civil War Tech

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Civil War Tech
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Factors Causing Change
Political
Sociological
Technological
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Time Line
1790
1800 1810 1820
1830
Technology Slaters Mill Steamship
Portland cement Steam
Locomotive
Cotton Gin
Gaslight Blast
Furnace Telegraph

Steel pen Plate glass
Cotton Production 140K s
500K 900K
1.8M

Sociology Abolition Society
Luddites Lowell MS
Augusta GA Canal Slave Population 700K
900K 1.2M
1.6M 2M

Political Constitution
Lewis/Clark African Slave AL enters
Union Nullification
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Slave Trade Act
Trade Act Tariff of
1824
War of 1812
Tariff of 1828
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Railroads The Hi-Tech of the 19th century
The General
The Texas
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Railroad Miles 1860
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Steamship
Arabia, sunk 1856, Missouri River above Kansas
City
USS Kearsarge, 1864
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Reaper Cyrus McCormick 1852
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John Deere Plow
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Photography
Edgar Allen Poe, 1846
Abraham Lincoln, 1846 Springfield IL
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Morse Telegraph- 1842
TransAtlantic Cable-1857
Morse Key
Automatic Key
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Singer Sewing Machine 1853
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Other Inventions
Spencer Microscope
Anesthesia Electric Motor Steel making
Process Clinical Thermometer Dynamite 1867 Ether
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Samuel Colt - 1836
Interchangeable Parts Mass Production Assembly
Line Machine Tools
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Factors Causing Change
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Sociological
Technological
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Terrain Analysis

• Observation Fields of Fire
• Cover Concealment
• Obstacles
• Key Terrain
• Avenues of Approach