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The Growth Industrialization

The Growth Industrialization. Advances in technology The growth of industry The Emergence of the factory system. The Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid change in the U.S. were machines replaced hand crafted labor as the main work force.

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The Growth Industrialization

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  1. The Growth Industrialization Advances in technology The growth of industry The Emergence of the factory system

  2. The Industrial Revolution • The Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid change in the U.S. were machines replaced hand crafted labor as the main work force. • The factory system: brings many workers and machines together under one roof to make goods.

  3. The Industrial Revolution • Before 1815, goods had been made in shops by craftsmen who specialized in making a certain good. • With machines workers were now unskilled because the machines did the work. Wages go down.

  4. The Textile Factory • 1790, Samuel Slater builds the first textile mill in the U.S. after learning textile secrets in England. • Inventions in agriculture produce large harvest which will feed factory workers. • 1820, wealthy Boston merchants build the Lowell Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. Its labor force is entirely women.

  5. Factories in New England • Factories are located in New England for 2 reasons: • fast moving rivers supply the factories with water power • there is a large population of people to work in the factories

  6. The Steam Engine • The steam engine after 1830 will be used to power the factories • The steam engine will also help factories move their goods to market because steam engines power steamboats that carry the finished goods to market.

  7. The Lowell Mills • Workers worked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. a day, six days a week. • There were 30 minute breaks for lunch. • You could be fined for being late to work. So workers ran back to work after lunch. • Females workers live in boarding house with a matron. • Workers are encouraged to attend school, church, and be respectful.

  8. The Lowell Mills • Workers were paid anywhere from $2.40 to $3.20 a week depending on how fast you worked. • Workers could lose fingers and limbs in the mill machinery. • Workers did the same thing for 12 hours.

  9. Interchangeable Parts • Eli Whitney will introduce the idea of Interchangeable parts is the process of making an item out of parts that are identical and be mass produced • It will help in the development of guns, machines and goods

  10. Interchangeable parts • The impact of interchangeable parts • goods are made faster • repairs to goods are easy because they are made from the same pieces • work is not hard almost anyone can do it- so you can pay people less

  11. Cheap labor • Workers leave after about five years to get married. • By the 1830’s there is a drive to increase textile production • As workers leave Irish immigrants and children are hired to work.

  12. Lowell and the environment • Mills are built along waterways to produce power and transport textile material to market. • Dams are erected to control flow of water to mills which floods farmlands, destroys the ecosystems of waterways. • Disease and epidemics flourished because of waste, contamination and rodents.

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