1 / 64

Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution. By TJ Roberts & Colin Drotar. Facts About Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a rapid period of growth. Manufacturing methods did not produce enough goods to meet everyone's needs. It was first formulated by British Historian Arnold Toynbee.

izzy
Download Presentation

Industrial Revolution

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Industrial Revolution By TJ Roberts &Colin Drotar

  2. Facts About Industrial Revolution • The Industrial Revolution was a rapid period of growth. • Manufacturing methods did not produce enough goods to meet everyone's needs. • It was first formulated by British Historian Arnold Toynbee. • America went from working in homes and farms to water power, then to steam power • The first big breakthrough was from water power and it was textiles. • Also, agricultures and roads improved and populations grew.

  3. Industrial Revolution Pictures

  4. Works Cited • Martello, Robert. "Industrial Revolution." Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. Vol. 2. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 993-999. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 23 Apr. 2012

  5. Labor Unions For Garment and Textile Workers

  6. How it started • Sara G Bagley, founded LowelFemale Labor Reform Association in 1844. • Sara Bags was the first women to hold a high ranking in America labor movement. • The associations had two main goals to influence and investigation of working conditions by Mass. State legislature and to obtain a ten hour working day. • This was all for garment and textile workers. • Union supported the ten hour working campaign.

  7. Working Conditions • Men and women often worked 12/14 hours per day 6 days a week. • working conditions were know to be terrible and were dangerous. • Mill workers got very little pay for what they did.

  8. Successes • President Martin Van Buren had granted a ten hour workday in 1940. • New Hampshire, Ohio Pennsylvania passed ten hour workday laws. • For factory workers in other states long hours remained common. • Union supporters continued to fight for work reforms such as, an end to child labor in the factories in the 1800s.

  9. Eli Whitney & Interchangeable Parts Erik Irvin & Troy Pearlman

  10. Eli Whitney • In 1798 addressed some tool problems • Gave officials a proposal for mass-production of guns by using water powered machinery • Made water powered machines • Also came up with the idea of interchangeable parts

  11. Interchangeable Parts • Parts of a machine that are identical • Using these interchangeable parts made machines easier to repair and replace broken parts • Whitney promised to build 10,000 muskets in 2 years with the machines • He got money to build his own factory in 1801

  12. Influence • Whitney proved the British technology could be improved • Mass-production became the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods

  13. Steamboats By: Wesley Olsen, and Taylor Goldberg

  14. The Beginning • In 1803 Robert Fulton tested the first steamboat in France, several years later he tested the first full sized steamboat. It was called the Clermont. • The steamboat could move upriver easily and did not rely on wind power which meant they could carried more goods and people with additional efficiency • They burned coal to fuel the engine.

  15. improvements • Henry shreve created a steamboat with an engine on the upper deck allowing the boat to draw in less water and navigate easier and safer • In 1824 the court reinforced the federal governments authority to regulate the river/water control over states ending monopolies

  16. The Future The steam boat made a big step for us InTechnology and economy which keeps us moving forward. Steamboats has allowed us to be able to make improvements and better means of transportations

  17. The Cotton Gin Project By: Tyler Kaplan, Shawn Scaffa Work Cited "Cotton Gin." U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History. Sonia Benson, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., and Rebecca Valentine. Ed. Lawrence W. Baker and Sarah Hermsen. Vol. 2. Detroit: UXL, 2009. 399-400. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 23 Apr. 2012.

  18. Eli Whitney • Eli Whitney: inventor of Cotton Gin • Revolutionized cotton production • Increased speed of production • Powered by Water Mills • Wanted to keep secret

  19. Cotton Gin • Extracted Seeds • Processed Cotton into string • Produced more cotton than 20 slaves • Reduced Jobs

  20. Production Rate

  21. Pros & Cons

  22. GAME Who was the inventor of the cotton gin? • Eli Whitney • Mike Wisousky • Brian Choi • God Zilla

  23. Try Again

  24. Really? • I wish he made the cotton gin too.

  25. WINNER!!! • THANKS FOR PLAYING!

  26. Cotton Gin By: Kristin Kroh and Jackie Salantri

  27. The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. • The Cotton Gin is a machine that removes seeds from short staple cotton. • It use’s a hand crank cylinder with wired teeth, that separates the seeds and cotton fibers. • Person = 1 pound/day • Cotton Gin= 50 pound/day

  28. Eli Whitney was not the first person to invent the cotton gin machine. • The downside to the cotton gin was the effect it had on slavery. The more the cotton gins the more demand of slaves and workers. • Another downside, was people began to copy his idea of the cotton gin, selling it around the world.

  29. -1836 cotton was 2/3 of all American exports.

  30. Works Cited • "Cotton Gin." U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History. Sonia Benson, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., and Rebecca Valentine. Ed. Lawrence W. Baker and Sarah Hermsen. Vol. 2. Detroit: UXL, 2009. 399-400. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 23 Apr. 2012.

  31. Anti Immigration Movements By Dr. Seuss (AKA Aftyn Andersn and Andréa Bauer)

  32. Long ago in a land far away immigrants went to the Midwest to live out their days • They went to get farms and to become laborers, many Americans did not like their new cultures • Americans were protestants before Catholics came, native born Americans felt they weren’t the same

  33. The Know-Nothing party, a political group, treated the immigrants like they were poop • The Know Nothing politicians made difficult laws to prevent foreigner to be citizens to do what they want • They had to live in here for 21 years to become citizens but the know-nothings fell apart due to slavery disagreements

  34. Anti Immigration Movements By Dr. Seuss (AKA Aftyn Andersn and Andréa Bauer) This has been written in poetry form

  35. Long ago in a land far away, immigrants went to the Midwest to live out their days • They went to get farms and to become laborers, many Americans did not like their new cultures • Americans were protestants before Catholics came, native born Americans felt they weren’t the same

  36. The Know-Nothing party, a political group, treated the immigrants like they were poop • The Know Nothing politicians made difficult laws to prevent foreigner to be citizens to do what they want • They had to live in here for 21 years to become citizens but the know-nothings fell apart due to slavery disagreements

  37. We USED THIS!!!! • http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=UHIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX3401802264&mode=view

  38. Temperance Act Jenny Salvatore Kelly Viola

  39. Temperance Act • The temperance movement was marked by an undercurrent of ethnic and religious hostility. • Some of the first advocates were people of Anglo-Saxon heritage who associated alcohol with the growing number of Catholic immigrants from Ireland and the European continent. • Supposedly, the Catholics were loud and boisterous as a result of too much drinking. • According to these activists, the consumption of alcohol was responsible for many personal and societal problems, including unemployment, absenteeism in the workplace, and physical violence.

  40. Temperance act • Congress enacted the Lever Act of 1917 (40 Stat. 276) to outlaw the use of grain in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages, and many state and local governments passed laws prohibiting the distribution and consumption of alcohol. • The Temperance Movement began in the Nineteenth Century. • It had an unprecedented agreement to reform the agitation. • They accepted the consumption of alcoholic beverages. It was an attack of the ignited popular enthusiasm. • This all took place in the United Sates.

  41. Women's Groups • Groups such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the Anti-Saloon League were at the forefront of the onslaught on alcohol. • Members of these groups spoke publicly in favor of Prohibition and lobbied elected officials for laws banning the consumption of alcohol. • Some of the more active members disrupted business at saloons and liquor stores

  42. Works cited • "Temperance Movement." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. 2nd ed. Vol. 9. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 453-455. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 23 Apr. 2012. • “Temperance Movement.” Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Paul Finkelman. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001. Gale U.S. History in Context. Web. 20. Apr. 2012

  43. Dorothea Dix Prisoner reform Prison Reform By: Kyle Sediaand Jimmy Ragnoli

  44. Dorothea Dix • Dorothea dix helped the mentally ill who we keep in prisons. The mentally ill were treated the same as the prisoners. When she found out that this was happing he talked to the state legislature. Then Massachusetts started to make facilities for the mentally ill so there were need where meet and there were living better. Children who did crimes were treated the same as adults. But soon they were put into housing units where they can get educated. Soon they tried to end pusiment all together and just use education to change there behavior

  45. North The Underground Railroad By: Dona Lisciotto Madeleine Whitmore

  46. Facts • Underground railroad wasn’t even an underground railroad it was a network of people that agreed to help slaves • Loosely organized groups begun to help slaves escape from South to North or Canada • Traveled on foot, small boats, and covered wagons they were even shipped in boxes • The escaped slaves were called packages of freight

  47. Facts • The slaves had no guideposts but the stars • Rest spots during the day were called “stations”, they were barns ,attics, or other places on property owned by abolitionists (station masters or someone who helped the slaves) • Most famous and daring conductor of the Underground railroad was Harriet Tubman • Harriet escaped slavery in 1849, she lead her whole family and 300 others out of slavery • If you caught her you the reward would be $400,000

  48. Pictures Harriet Tubman was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. She made at least fifteen trips into the South to help runaway slaves travel north to find freedom. Map of Underground railroad routes Slaves who used the Underground Railroad

  49. Works Cited • "Underground Railroad." U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History. Sonia Benson, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., and Rebecca Valentine. Ed. Lawrence W. Baker and Sarah Hermsen. Vol. 8. Detroit: UXL, 2009. 1602-1604. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 20 Apr. 2012. • "Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She made at least fifteen trips into..." American Social Reform Movements Reference Library. Ed. Carol Brennan, et al. Vol. 2: Almanac. Detroit: UXL, 2007. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 23 Apr. 2012. • "Slaves who used the Underground Railroad." U*X*L Multicultural: A Comprehensive Resource on African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native North Americans. Detroit: U*X*L, 2010. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 23 Apr. 2012. • "Map of The Routes of the Underground Railroad." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Ed. Thomas Carson and Mary Bonk. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 23 Apr. 2012.

  50. SENECA FALLS CONVENTION By: Julia Littman and Gigi Pagano

More Related