Cottage Industry and Factories

Bell Ringer: What are 3 improvements made during the Agricultural Revolution? How might these improvements contribute to the Industrial Revolution?

Essential Question

How did the Cottage Industry and Textile industry contribute to the growth of the Industrial Revolution?

Cottage Industry

• Merchants supply raw materials – wool and cotton – to cottages• Turned into yarn

• Merchants pick up spun yarn, take to next cottage• Weave, dye, finished

• Merchants sell product for a profit ($$$)

• Capitalism: a new economic ($$$) system based on SUPPLY AND DEMAND• Workers earn wages ($$$)• Demand for products increases. Why?

Draw a picture that represents these notes

Effects of Cottage Industry

• Big profits for merchants• What do they do with profits?

• New source of income for peasants• Why do peasants need income?

Textiles and the Factory System• Textile Industry• Textiles = cloth/fabric• Cottage Industry too slow – demand• Why was the cottage industry too slow?

• New inventions speed up spinning• Spinning Jenny - • Water Frame - • Spinning Mule - • Power Loom -

• Cotton Gin removed seeds - • Why did the Cotton Gin speed up cotton

production?

Spinning Jenny

Water Frame

Spinning Mule

Power Loom

Cotton Gin

Rise of Factories

• Larger buildings needed• Why?• Machines too big

for homes• Needed to be near

power: coal or water

Effects of Textile Factories

• Price of mass produced textiles = low

• Textile factory output explodes

• Cottage Industry forced to close – made less $$$

Page 23BTW… Compare and contrast the Cottage Industry to the Factory Industry. What is similar between the two systems? What is different? Use 2 examples to prove your point.