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Industrial Revolution

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.

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Industrial Revolution

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  1. 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?

  2. ‪Turning Points in History - Industrial Revolution‬

  3. 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

  4. Causes: Speedy Production • Because of • Assembly lines • Interchangeable parts • Inventions

  5. Causes: Interchangeable Parts • All machine-made parts would be a like • Save time and money • Invented by Eli Whitney to make muskets for the U.S. government

  6. Causes:Assembly Lines • Each worker adding one part in order to create a finished product • Used first in Lowell’s textile (clothes) factories • Resulted in the construction of factories across the Northern U.S.

  7. 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

  8. Causes:Inventions • Eli Whitney – Cotton gin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMZg2kLLs-Q&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

  9. Causes:Inventions • James Hargreaves: spinning jenny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MWRY2cpibE&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

  10. Causes:Inventions • Robert Fulton – Steam Boat • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFi-vbOyuo&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

  11. 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!

  12. Causes:Inventions • A whole factory town is built • 1836 10,000 people working there • Lowell girls: hired young women to work in factories • Non-married • Worked for a few years • Wages sent to family

  13. Result: Craftsmen Out • Products used to be made by individual shop owners who were specialists • Each product was different • Now products were identical, and made in factories

  14. Result: Urbanization • More and more people moved to cities where there were factory jobs • This was more true of the North than the South which remained agricultural

  15. Result: Machines In • Sewing Machines • Cotton Gin • Steam power • Bessemer Steel Process resulted in large sky scrapers that could now be built

  16. Result: Money Invested • Stock market invented • “investors” would receive a percentage of profits • New York came stock market center

  17. Result: More Workers Together • People worked in large factories instead of small shops • The workers were exposed to people from different cultures • The “working class” emerged

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