Learning targets for today

• I can explain the roles Samuel Slater and Eli Whitney had in the Industrial Rev in the US

• I can explain what the factory system is• I can discuss how Industrial Revolution

changed the US.

Factories

• Samuel Slater- memorized plans for a factory in England. Snuck out of England and came to America. Started factory in Rhode Island.

• Why the North- need fast flowing rivers to run the machines. Southern rivers were slow moving

• Factory System- Bringing workers and machines together under one building

Threshing

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Why build in the North

• need fast flowing rivers to run the machines. Southern rivers were slow moving

• Now jobs are available in the North. Those people in the south that do not own land or looking for something better head North

• The population in the South declines. The people that stay are those with either small farms or plantations or businesses

Basement

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Interchangeable parts-

• - Invented by Eli Whitney. Parts are built exactly alike.

• This helps with the building and maintenance of goods.

• Do not need “specialized” parts or skilled workers to replace or build them

Industrial Revolution-

• Using “new tech” to make and build goods at a higher Volume.

• Replaced the “old” production method of 1 person 1 thing.

• In the US manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work

Working at the Mill

• Slater starts the 1st textile mill in the US. • Lowell 1st to use women as workers • Brought about the factory system ( workers

and machines under 1 roof) • located in N.E. to start because of the fast

moving rivers

Rehearser

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Harnessing steam

• Using steam to run engines in machines.• Steamboat could be used to travel up and

down rivers/waterways much quicker than sailing ships.

• Trains used to get materials and goods to and from areas that boats could not reach.

• Could carry larger amounts of cargo then steamships.

Inventors

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Telegraph

• quick communications between places over any distance.

• Electrical pulses were used to make letters which in turn would spell out the message.

• Invented by Samuel Morse.

Technology

• Using the new ideas to make life “easier”. Machines such as the mechanical reaper/thresher are making the jobs easier for the workers.