35-597: Shepherdstown is the name of some places in the United States of America: Shepherdstown, Ohio , in Wheeling Township, Belmont County Shepherdstown, Pennsylvania Shepherdstown, West Virginia [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
70-423: A factory system of labor . Throughout this period, much of the U.S. population remained in small scale agriculture. Despite a small percentage of the population then working in industry, the U.S. government took action to promote the expansion of U.S. industry. An important example is Alexander Hamilton 's proposal of the "American School" ideas which supported high tariffs to protect U.S. industry. This idea
105-458: A center of business and social life, with employees living on or near the mill. The company grew rapidly and by the mid-19th century had become the largest supplier of gunpowder to the United States military. In the late 1700s, Robert Fulton of Pennsylvania proposed plans for steam-powered vessels to both the United States and British governments. Having developed significant technical knowledge in both France and Great Britain, Fulton returned to
140-419: A demonstration for Congress in which he assembled muskets from parts chosen randomly from his supply. While this demonstration was later proved to be fake, it popularized the idea of interchangeable parts, and Eli Whitney continued using the concept to allow relatively unskilled laborers to produce and repair weapons quickly and at a low cost. Another important innovator is Thomas Blanchard , who in 1819 invented
175-759: A forty-one-foot-high clock tower that was erected on December 13, 2022. Industrial Revolution in the United States Employment In the United States from the late 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution affected the U.S. economy , progressing it from manual labor, farm labor and handicraft work, to a greater degree of industrialization based on wage labor . There were many improvements in technology and manufacturing fundamentals with results that greatly improved overall production and economic growth in
210-460: A one-room schoolhouse. On February 2, 1953, Shepherdstown Elementary School, then known as Upper Allen Elementary School, was constructed just northwest of the community, across the street from the former schoolhouse. The schoolhouse was sold and replaced with a modern home. This new school was a consolidation of many one-room schoolhouses in the district and opened with seven schoolhouse teachers assigned to grade-level classrooms. In 1965, this building
245-609: Is an unincorporated community that is located in Upper Allen Township , Cumberland County , Pennsylvania , United States. It is situated just south of Mechanicsburg and is home to the Union Hotel that was built in 1860 by Abraham Zook and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Shepherdstown was founded in 1822 and named for William Shepherd. Shepherdstown was once home to
280-492: Is most associated with starting up the textiles industry in the U.S. and who initially brought the textile technology to the U.S. was Samuel Slater . Slater learned that Americans were interested in textile techniques used in England, but since exporting such technical designs were illegal in England, he memorized as much as he could and departed for New York City . Moses Brown , a leading Rhode Island industrialist, secured
315-544: The American industrial revolution . The plan for the development originally called for two mixed-use apartment buildings, two fast-food restaurants, and a three-story building. Plans to replace one fast food restaurant and the three-story building with a Chick-fil-A sparked debate among residents but were approved by Upper Allen Township commissioners on December 7, 2022. The restaurant successfully opened at 6:30 AM on January 11, 2024. Shepherdstown Crossing also includes
350-522: The Mechanicsburg Area School District and are now located on a campus alongside Mechanicsburg Middle School (opened in 2002) and Trails and Trees Environmental Center. The Upper Allen Township Dog Park was developed along Old Hollow Road, next to Daybreak Church. It opened on June 30, 2018. The membership cost at the time of opening was $ 20/yr for residents and $ 50/yr for non-residents of Upper Allen Township. Plans for
385-666: The "Father of the American Industrial Revolution". But Slater also earned the pejorative "Slater the Traitor" from many in Great Britain who felt he betrayed them in bringing British textile techniques to the Americas. With the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1794, American slaveholders had the means to make cotton production significantly more profitable. The era of King Cotton
SECTION 10
#1732775569749420-524: The 1780s, the Erie Canal was proposed, then re-proposed in 1807 with a survey being funded in 1808. Construction began in 1817 and the original canal was about 363 miles with 34 numbered locks from Albany to Buffalo . Prior to the Erie Canal, bulk goods were limited to shipping by pack animal, there were no railways and water was the most cost-effective way to ship bulk goods. Use of this new canal
455-470: The Blanchard lathe, which could produce identical copies of wooden gun stocks. Interchangeable parts made the development of the assembly line possible. In addition to making production faster, the assembly line eliminated the need for skilled craftsmen because each worker would only do one repetitive step instead of the entire process. The first Industrial Revolution had a profound effect on labor in
490-494: The Civil War, rifles with interchangeable parts had been developed, and after the war, more complex devices such as sewing machines and typewriters were made with interchangeable parts. In 1798, Eli Whitney obtained a government contract to manufacture 10,000 muskets in less than two years. By 1801, he had failed to produce a single musket and was called to Washington to justify his use of Treasury funds. There, he created
525-485: The Embargo Act resulted in the expansion of new, emerging US domestic industries across the board, particularly the textile industry, and marked the beginning of the manufacturing system in the United States, reducing the nation's dependence upon imported manufactured goods. The early Industrial Revolution, which lasted into the mid-19th century, was marked by shift in labor, from an outwork system of labor towards
560-511: The Jeffersonian-dominated Congress did not renew it. State legislatures were persuaded to charter their own banks to continue helping merchants, artisans, and farmers who needed loans, and, by 1816, there were 246 state-chartered banks. With these banks, states were able to support internal transportation improvements, such as the Erie Canal , which stimulated economic development. The Industrial Revolution altered
595-667: The U.S. The Industrial Revolution occurred in two distinct phases, the First Industrial Revolution occurred during the later part of the 18th century through the first half of the 19th century and the Second Industrial Revolution advanced following the American Civil War . Among the main contributors to the First Industrial Revolution were Samuel Slater 's introduction of British industrial methods in textile manufacturing to
630-503: The U.S. Companies from the era, such as the Boston Associates , would recruit thousands of New England farm girls to work in textile mills. These girls often received much lower wages than men, though the work and pay gave young women a sense of independence that they did not feel working on a farm. The First Industrial Revolution also marked the beginning of the rise of wage labor in the United States. As wage labor grew over
665-462: The U.S. economy and set the stage for the United States to dominate technological change and growth in the Second Industrial Revolution and the Gilded Age . The Industrial Revolution also saw a decrease in labor shortages which had characterized the U.S. economy through its early years. This was partly due to a transportation revolution happening at the same time, low population density areas of
700-664: The U.S. economy. Some technologies that advanced the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. were appropriated from British designs by ambitious British entrepreneurs hoping to use the technology to create successful companies in the U.S. Much of the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. originated in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania , where anthracite coal , iron ore , steel , textile , and industrial sectors experienced breakthroughs and emerged as global manufacturing leaders. One entrepreneur who
735-506: The U.S. were better able to connect to the population centers through the Wilderness Road and the Erie Canal , with steamboats and later rail transport , leading to urbanization and an increased labor force available around larger cities, including Chicago , Philadelphia , and New York City , and labor force shortages elsewhere as workers fled to these highly populated cities. Also, quicker movement of resources and goods around
SECTION 20
#1732775569749770-494: The United States, Eli Whitney 's invention of the cotton gin , Éleuthère Irénée du Pont 's improvements in chemistry and gunpowder making, and other industrial advancements necessitated by the War of 1812 , as well as the construction of the Erie Canal , among other developments. As Western Europe industrialized in the mid-to-late 1700s, the United States remained agrarian with resource processing, gristmills, and sawmills being
805-503: The United States, working with Robert R. Livingston to open the first commercially successful steamboat operating between New York City and Albany . Fulton built a new steamboat sturdy enough to take down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, he was an early member on a commission to plan the Erie Canal , and Fulton designed the first working muscle-powered submarine, the Nautilus . In
840-460: The construction of 37 townhomes on the south side of Shepherdstown were submitted to Upper Allen Township on February 1, 2011. The townhome development, named Terraces at Shepherdstown, began construction in 2021. In 2019, a mixed-use development named Shepherdstown Crossing (or Mills at Shepherdstown Crossing) was announced, to be located on the north end of Shepherdstown. The buildings were planned to have exteriors resembling early architecture of
875-482: The country drastically increased trade efficiency and output while allowing for an extensive transport base for the U.S. to grow during the Second Industrial Revolution. Techniques to make interchangeable parts were developed in the U.S., and allowed easy assembly and repair of firearms or other devices, minimizing the time and skill needed to repair or assemble devices. By the beginning of
910-407: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shepherdstown&oldid=933124622 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Shepherdstown, Pennsylvania Shepherdstown
945-590: The main industrial, non-agrarian output. As demand for U.S. resources increased, canals and railroads became important to the economic growth as transportation necessitated and the U.S. population was sparse, especially in areas where resources were being extracted such as the American frontier . This made it necessary to expand technological capabilities, which led to an Industrial Revolution in America as entrepreneurs, businesses competed with and learned from each other to develop better technology, fundamentally altering
980-589: The running water to power the machinery in the plant. Thus, many of the factories of the First Industrial Revolution were in the Northeastern United States To aid the expansion of industry, Congress chartered the Bank of the United States in 1791, giving loans to help merchants and entrepreneurs secure needed capital. However, Jeffersonians saw this bank as an unconstitutional expansion of federal power, so when its charter expired in 1811,
1015-434: The services of Slater, with Slater promising to recreate British textile designs. After an initial investment by Brown to fulfill initial requirements, a mill successfully opened in 1793 being the first water-powered roller spinning textile mill in America. By 1800, Slater's mill had been duplicated by many other entrepreneurs as Slater grew wealthier and his techniques more and more popular with Andrew Jackson calling Slater
1050-656: Was a cumulative addition to the Non-importation Act of 1806 (2 Stat. 379), which was a "Prohibition of the Importation of certain Goods and Merchandise from the Kingdom of Great Britain," the prohibited imported goods being defined where their chief value, which consists of leather, silk, hemp or flax, tin or brass, wool, glass, and paper goods, nails, hats, clothing, and beer. The prohibition of imports under
1085-477: Was copied by many and improved upon. The du Pont family emigrated to the United States due to repercussions from the French Revolution , bringing with them expertise in chemistry and gunpowder. E.I. du Pont observed that the quality of American gunpowder was poor, and opened Eleutherian Mills , a gunpowder mill on Brandywine Creek in 1802. The mill served as home for du Pont's family as well as
Shepherdstown - Misplaced Pages Continue
1120-615: Was embraced by the Whig Party in the early 19th century with their support for Henry Clay 's American System . This plan, proposed shortly after the War of 1812 , promoted not only protective tariffs , but also canals and roads to support the movement of manufactured goods around the country. As in Britain, the First Industrial Revolution in the United States revolved heavily around the textile industry. Early U.S. textile plants were located next to rivers and streams as they would use
1155-552: Was faster than using carts pulled by draft animals and cut transport costs by about 95%. The canal gave New York City's port a significant advantage over all other U.S. port cities and contributed to a growth in population in New York state and regions farther west. It inspired canals elsewhere, bringing a canal age . In response to British aggression against the U.S., Congress passed the Embargo Act of 1807 . The embargo
1190-401: Was renamed Upper Allen I with the addition of Upper Allen II directly next to it. Upper Allen II was later renamed Upper Allen Elementary School with Upper Allen I being called Shepherdstown Elementary School because of its proximity to Shepherdstown. Both schools have undergone multiple additions over time, most notably extensive renovations in the late 2010s and early 2020s. They are operated by
1225-518: Was underway by the early 1800s to such an extent that by the mid-19th century, southern slave plantations supplied 75% of the world's cotton. The introduction of the cotton gin was as unexpected as it was unprecedented. British textiles had expanded with no change in ginning principles in centuries. For the American planter class , up front costs were higher but productivity improvement among their slaves were clear and Whitney's original 1794 gin design
#748251