Chapter 14 Section 3

1. Chapter 14 Section 3 By Haley Ellis, Jeremy Peterson, Cassie Trapp, and Jessica Isler Rakipi 3rd Hour

2. Questions on Chapter 14 - 3 How were peoples' lives affected in the chapter? Specific? Advancements in the spinning wheel made making yarn and thread easier giving more women time to do chores around the house. Some women even started working in factories.  Any changes in society? Manufacturing? Factories are opening up in the Northeast, mainly textile factories. These companies used spinning wheels and jennies to make the textile. Describe a womens' life working in the Lowell spinning cloth factory.The women lived in dorms and worked from five in the morning until seven at night without many breaks. The only supper they had was bread and gravy. They were only payed half as much as the men.

3.  Spinning Wheel  •The spinning wheel is for making yarn into  thread. •It was invented in the 1700’s. •The spinning wheels were very slow. Jeremy Peterson

4. Spinning Jenny • The spinning jenny could spin multiple spools of thread into eight threads at once. • A man named James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny.        Jeremy Peterson

5. Spinning Factory • Samual Slater memorized the spinning factory plan while working at a British spinning mill. • He set out for America and built a small spinning factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790. • Slater found investors so he could build a full-scale spinning factory that opened in 1793.   • Cassie Trapp

6. Lowell's Cloth Factory • Francis Cabot Lowell saw power looms in Britain. • In 1813 he bult a factory in Waltham, Massachusetts, that was powered by water. • Raw cotton entered one end and it came out a finished producted at the other. • The factory workers mostly were farm families. • Women were employed to work in these factories too, which made them more independent.  Cassie Trapp

7. Interchangable Parts • Identical parts that can be substituted for one another in the manufacture for the repair of products. Haley Ellis

8. Eli Whitney • Eli Whitney was hired to make guns for the United States. was to make 10,000 muskets int two years. • By 1800 he had not made the guns so he went to go explain the delay to Washington. •  He showed them that he had not been wasting his time but he had discovered a way to make a bunch of guns in the time it took a blacksmith to do one. He just made it so that all the guns used the same peices instead of having different peices for each gun. • Haley Ellis

9. Steam Engine • In the 1830's inventors adapted steam power into a steam powered locomotive. •   In Baltimore in 1830 the locomotive "Tom Thumb" raced a horse and lost. Even though the locomotive lost the rail roads supporters were still hopeful.  • In the 1830's there was about 30 miles of railroad track in the U.S.. 10 years later there was 2,800 miles of track.  By 1850 there was 9,00 miles.  Jessica Isler

10. Steamship "Clermont" • The Clermont was the first steamboat built in the United States and the first commercially successful steamboat in the world. •  It was powered by a Watt steam engine and measured  133 ft long. • On its initial trip in 1807, Clermont steamed up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany and back, a distance of 240 mi, in 62 hours.  Jessica Isler

11. Railroads • The coaches were tied together with chains and when the locomotive stopped the cars would crash together. • Dry pitch was used for fuel, sending black smoke filled with sparks, coals, and cinders along the length of the train. • Passengers tried to use unbrella's for cover from the black smoke, but found that their unbrellas caught on fire. Jessica Isler

12. Questions on Chapter 14 - 3 How were peoples' lives affected in the chapter? Specific? Advancements in the spinning wheel made making yarn and thread easier giving more women time to do chores around the house. Some women even started working in factories. Any changes in society? Manufacturing? Factories are opening up in the Northeast, mainly textile factories. These companies used spinning wheels and jennies to make the textile. Describe a womens' life working in the Lowell spinning cloth factory.The women lived in dorms and worked from five in the morning until seven at night without many breaks. The only supper they had was bread and gravy. They were only payed half as much as the men.

13. Bibliography • Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing. 05 Mar. 2009 <http://www.flickr.com>. • History of the United States. Vol. 1. Illinois: McDougal Littel, 1997. • "Steamship Clermont - Picture - MSN Encarta." MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework. 05 Mar. 2009 <http://encarta.msn.com/media_461550793_761571524_-1_1/steamship_clermont.html>.