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Early Industry and Inventions

Early Industry and Inventions. 8.1.6 Interpret a timeline of technological innovations 8.2.8 Recognize the factors that led to urbanization and industrialization in early America (i.e., religious freedom, land ownership, thriving market). The Industrial Revolution.

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Early Industry and Inventions

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  1. Early Industry and Inventions 8.1.6 Interpret a timeline of technological innovations 8.2.8 Recognize the factors that led to urbanization and industrialization in early America (i.e., religious freedom, land ownership, thriving market).

  2. The Industrial Revolution • People had made clothing, furniture, and other goods at home • In the late 18th century factory machines started replacing hand tools in Britain and then in America

  3. Factories Rise in New England • 1739 • Samuel Slater built the first spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island • People left their family farms and moved to cities to take jobs in factories

  4. Transportation and Communication • 1807 • Robert Fulton developed a steamboat that could move against the current or a strong wind • 1830 • Peter Cooper built America’s first successful steam-powered locomotive • 1837 • Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrates his telegraph that sent long and short pulses of electricity that could be translated into letters

  5. Technology Improves Farming • 1793 • Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin that allowed one worker to clean as much as 50 pounds of cotton in one day • 1831 • Cyrus McCormick developed a reaper that cut ripe grain quickly and efficiently • 1837 • John Deere invented a lightweight plow with a steel cutting edge

  6. Lasting Impacts Of Technology • Urbanization • More people moved to cities in order to get jobs in manufacturing • The World Became “Smaller” • With faster transportation and communication people could now travel and communicate quicker • Expansion of Slavery in the South • From 1790 to 1860 cotton production increased due to technological innovations

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