Industrial Revolution

What are the causes for the Industrial Revolution?

What are the effects of the Industrial Revolution?

Why was Lowell, Massachusetts called a model factory town?

Turning Points in History - Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution Industrial Revolution: gradual process

by which machines replaced hand tools, and steam and other new sources of power replaced human and animal power

Causes: Speedy ProductionBecause of

Assembly lines Interchangeable parts Inventions

Causes: Interchangeable PartsAll machine-made parts would be a like

Save time and money Invented by Eli Whitney to make

muskets for the U.S. government

Causes:Assembly LinesEach worker adding one part in order to

create a finished productUsed first in Lowell’s textile (clothes)

factoriesResulted in the construction of factories

across the Northern U.S.

Causes:Inventions Eli Whitney – Cotton gin James Hargreaves: spinning jenny Elias Howe – Sewing Machine Robert Fulton – Steam Boat Francis Cabot Lowell and Samuel Slater –

Assembly lines and factories

Causes:Inventions Eli Whitney – Cotton gin

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Causes:Inventions James Hargreaves: spinning jenny

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Causes:Inventions Robert Fulton – Steam Boat

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Causes:Inventions Francis Cabot Lowell and

Samuel Slater – Assembly lines and factories War of 1812 no goods from

England in Industries started making things

their selves England

Factory spins tread Second spins cloth

Why not do it all in one place!

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Causes:InventionsA whole factory town is built1836 10,000 people working thereLowell girls: hired young women to

work in factories Non-married Worked for a few years Wages sent to family

Result: Craftsmen OutProducts used to be made by individual

shop owners who were specialistsEach product was differentNow products were identical, and made

in factories

Result: UrbanizationMore and more

people moved to cities where there were factory jobs

This was more true of the North than the South which remained agricultural

Result: Machines InSewing MachinesCotton GinSteam powerBessemer Steel Process resulted in

large sky scrapers that could now be built

Result: Money InvestedStock market

invented “investors” would

receive a percentage of profits

New York came stock market center

Result: More Workers TogetherPeople worked in large factories instead

of small shopsThe workers were exposed to people

from different culturesThe “working class” emerged