Relier Pairs U4-L1, L2Version en ligne The Industrial Revolution in America. Changes in Working Life/Transportation Revolution. par Dawn Wooner 1 Ways railroads affect daily life or economy of U.S. 2 Robert Fulton 3 Industrial Revolution 4 Interchangeable parts. 5 Transportation Revolution. 6 Mass production. 7 Samuel Slater 8 Textiles 9 Lowell system 10 Ways life might change as a result of the Industrial Revolution. 11 Eli Whitney 12 Reasons mills were located in New England. Identical parts that can replace each other in a machine. Started in Great Britain in mid-1700s. Period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production. British mechanic. Immigrated to U.S. with memorized designs of textile machines. Improved mill and and production of cotton thread. Plentiful river/water for reliable source of power. Moving from working on farms or in homes to working in factories. Loss of work for skilled laborers. Poor working conditions, Based on water-powered textile mills that employed young, single women. System included a loom that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill. Efficient, large-scale production of identical goods. Tested first steamboat design in France (1803). Also tested first full-sized commercial steamboat. Period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation. Steamboat and steam powered trains. Boom in business- lower shipping time and cost. Economy grew. Easier and faster to get goods to distant markets. Enabled goods, people, and info to spread rapidly (increased population and prosperity). Inventor. Proposed ways to mass-produce guns for U.S. government using water-powered machinery. Invented the cotton gin. Cloth items (fabric, textile)
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