Civil War Tech

Factors Causing Change

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Time Line 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830

Technology Slater’s Mill Steamship Portland cement Steam Locomotive

Cotton Gin Gaslight Blast Furnace Telegraph

Steel pen Plate glass

Sociology Abolition Society Luddites Lowell MS Augusta GA Canal

Slave Population 700K 900K 1.2M 1.6M 2M

Cotton Production 140K #s 500K 900K 1.8M

Political Constitution Lewis/Clark African Slave AL enters Union Nullification S Slave Trade Act Trade Act Tariff of 1824

War of 1812 Tariff of 1828

RailroadsThe Hi-Tech of the 19th century

The General The Texas

Railroad Miles

1860

Arabia, sunk 1856, Missouri River above Kansas City

USS Kearsarge, 1864

Steamship

Reaper

Cyrus McCormick

1852

John Deere Plow

Photography

Edgar Allen Poe, 1846

Abraham Lincoln, 1846

Springfield IL

Morse Telegraph- 1842

Morse Key

Automatic Key

TransAtlantic Cable-1857

Singer Sewing Machine

1853

Other Inventions

Spencer Microscope

Anesthesia

Electric Motor

Steel making Process

Clinical Thermometer

Dynamite – 1867

Ether

Samuel Colt - 1836Interchangeable Parts

Mass Production

Assembly Line

Machine Tools

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Terrain Analysis

• Observation & Fields of Fire

• Cover & Concealment

• Obstacles

• Key Terrain

• Avenues of Approach