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__ North Social Notes __  Determine the cuse and effects of technology. (Give facts and reasons why)  ===== ====Machines used to make products became more efficient, the process involved changed dramatically. Most manufacturing was still done my hand. In the 1790’s the U.S. worried about war, with France. The army wanted more muskets but we couldn’t produce them fast enough. So people tried to make a machine that produces them, tats when interchangeable parts came around. Eli Whitney proved that inventors could improve upon the new British technology. Mass production was coming up hastily. People in Britain got sick of working in factories and wanted to become their own farmers that stopped as soon as people realized how expensive land was in Britain, compared to the United States. Fewer people were able to own land. This way British manufactures had plenty of factored workers with good technical skills. They could produce large amounts of goods less expensively than the U.S. as of that they could lower prices on goods. That made it hard for Americans to compete with. It discouraged American investors from spending the money needed to build new factories and machinery. So little found a place in the American economy this included cotton goods, flour milling, weapons and iron production. It started to change around the war of 1812. British ships blocked eastern sea ports preventing foreign ships from delivering goods. Investors started to lend money to manufactures for their businesses. The U.S realized that they were relying too much on the foreign goods. ====