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Industrial Revolution
Industrial RevolutionThe devlopment of machines powered by steam or fast-flowing rivers, to perform work that ahd once benn done by hand. -
First Water-powered Textile Mill
Slater used his detailed knowledge of the textile machinery to build the nation's first water-powered textile mii in 1793 at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.The mill use the flowing Blackstone River to power its machinery, which produced one part of the textile: cotton thread. -
First Mill in Waltham,Massachusetts
The associates built their first mill in Waltham,Massachusetts,in which all operations in the manufacture of cloth occurred-instead of just the production of thread. -
canals
canals provided efficient water transportation that linked farm to the expanding cities. the Erie canal becaues the best konw canal of that era. it ran 360 miles arcoss New York state from to the Hudson River. Before the canal went in to service 100 dollars to ship freight overlands but after it only cost 4 dollars. Not only was the cost lowed it help make New York city the nations greates commercial center. After the canal was build it increass the value of farmland in the the great lakes -
national road
the national road was the first major improved highway in the United states to be built by the federal government. About 620 miles long, The national Road connected the potomac and ohio river and was a gateway to the west for thousands of settlers. -
turnpikes
turnpikes was when some states charted companies to operate road for which users had to play a toll. the word turnpikes, came from gates that guarded entrances to the road. the ideal of the turnpikes was to ues toll income to improve the roads and ease travel. in some case it worked and in other it did not -
Lowell Girls
Lowell GirlsThey built more factories on the merrimack River and established a new town called Lowell.Their system employed young,single women recruited from area farms.The company enforced strict rules of behavior and housed the "Lowell girls' in closely supervised boardinghouses.After a few years of work,most of the young women married and left the factories. -
Effects of factory growth
The speed and volume of production weren't the only things changed by the growth of factories.Factories also changed the working lives of thousands of people.Machines increased the pace of work and divided labor into many small tasks done by separate workers.This process reduced the amount of skill and training required for individual jobs. -
clothing production
A garment trade developed primarily in New York City.Contractors provided cloth to poor women who made the clothes in their homes without the help of machines.They earned about $1 per week. -
steamboat
a steamboat is when you burn wood or coal and then the engine boiledthe water to create steam. this was very imporantent becaues it only toke 20 days insead of 4 mounths to get to new oeleans to lulisvielle, and by 1838 it only toke 6 days. the steamboat was made by american Robert Fultoon. in 180 the steamship could cross the the atlantic in 10 to 14 days. -
railroads
the biggest transpotation advance was railroads. They cost less tp make, could more esily scale hulls, more faster, and carried more weight. when trains first came about horses pulled the trains but along the way some inventors soon developed steam-powered egines. By the 1830 railroads had expanded fastily, and in 1857 it only toke 2 days by train inseed of 28 Days by boat. -
shoe production
Lynn,Massachusetts,led the nation in the shoemaking industry.A few men performed the skilled and better-paying tasks od cutting and shaping leather for the tops of the shoes.For less pay(about 50 cents a week),women sewed the shoes together. -
morse
Samuel F.B Morse an American invented the electric telegraph. the telegraph is when electrical pulses to travel long distanaces along metal wire as coded signals. the coded would be dashes that would conect to someone eles. the telegraph would delevered letter or message almost instantly were bfore it could mouths
