Opening Assignment Bell Work What inventions or new technologies have improved your life?

Essential Learning Goal: The Market Revolution occurred over many years and profoundly changed the types of work we do and how Americans provide for themselves. Learning Targets: Students will recognize the change in the location of production from home to factory. Students will understand the importance of different types of Transportation, communication, and Power that shaped the market revolution. Students will identify the inventor of the Cotton Gin and the gin’s impact on the US economy.

The Market Revolution A c hange in society from a subsistence style economy to a market economy. Goods will be produced in factories and purchased from stores instead of people making things for themselves at home or by artisans.

The old system 1700’s to 1870’s Most products were created in peoples’ homes or by artisans with a specific skill set. Examples: In homes Cloth/String/Furniture, By artisans firearms/watches Merchants would provide raw materials to individuals to use in the home to create a product. Example: Cotton or wool to be spun into yarn.

A spinning wheel

Early Mechanization Took existing methods to produce a good and used a machine in place of some of the human labor. Example: Spinning Jenny A jenny was a slang abbreviation of the term Engine. This early “machine” could do the work of several people with one person operating the device.

New Technology Transportation- Man-made canals help move goods to market via ships. Steam ships also moved goods on rivers and the ocean. Railroads move goods overland to markets. Communication The telegraph Power sources Water power Coal power

Changing Work The new market economy in the US did not only affect what people bought and sold, it also changed the ways Americans worked. Moving production from the home to the factory split families, created new communities, and transformed relationships between employers and employees.

Changing Work By the mid-1800’s new machines allowed unskilled workers to perform tasks that once had taken the effort of trained artisans. To do this work, though, workers needed factories. Early factories in the US were located in the Northeast in places like, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. Later factories began to take root in the Midwest in places like Detroit, Cincinnati, and Chicago.

Workers Organize Soon working conditions deteriorated as factories were often dark, hot, and cramped. Factory owners showed little sympathy for the difficulties of their workers. This movement of workers into factories will lead to another new innovation, organized labor. Workers will try to assert control over their working environment by organizing strikes.

The Market Revolution and the South. Growing cotton required great amounts of labor until…..

The Cotton Gin In 1793 Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin. This device saved a great amount of time and energy when removing the seeds from cotton. Once cotton became easier to produce what do you think plantation owners did at their farms in the American South? Who did southern planters use to pick the cotton? What term can we use to define this labor system?

Crash Course Video Watch and listen to the video. Pay close attention to what John Greene says toward the end of the video about Bartleby and the nature of work. You will have to write about this at the end.

Ticket out the door Summarize what you think John Greene was suggesting about the nature of work after the market revolution and how it affected and continues to affect the workers. Use 35 words exactly, no more, no less. You might have to reword, or reduce if you have too much. You might have to expand or explain further if you have too little.

Homework The Market Revolution Chapter 3 Section 4 Copy the Terms & Names into your notes. Read Pages Write this on a page that can be turned in. Complete the Main Idea Questions A – D