The Industrial Revolution in America The Industrial Revolution transformed the way goods were produced in the United States

Key Vocabulary and Key People Key Vocabulary Industrial Revolution Textiles Technology Interchangeable Parts Mass Production Key People Richard Arkwright Samuel Slater Eli Whitney

Buying some new Threads In the 1700’s People in the United States were either Farmers who made what they needed by hand or worked in small shops in the cities As cities and populations GREW the need for goods increased leading to new methods of production during the industrial revolution The Textile Industry made the first innovations going from Handmade cloth to machine made cloth using Richard Arkwright’s Water Frame Spinning Machine Factories began popping up next to Running Water to power the Machines and led to an increase in cloth at lower prices as well as Jobs for the people

A Clean Slate® Great Britain Started to pass laws to maintain it’s industrial Dominance but Samuel Slater secretly emigrated to the United States with his industrial secrets Samuel Slater Teamed with Moses Brown to create a Textile Mill using British Innovations in Pawtucket Rhode Island and created the Textile Industry in New England New England became perfect for Textile manufacturing due to: Willing Investors looking to open Factories Its Available workforce due to poor farming conditions New England Had MANY rivers and streams to Power the Factories and to ship goods The South’s Focus on Agricultural goods

Two Tickets to the Gun Show The United States’ need for more guns led to a need for change in the Technology used to create Guns in larger numbers Eli Whitney created interchangeable parts to break gun production into many pieces instead of One whole gun at a time Creating THOUSANDS of identical Parts and assembling them at the end made it so THOUSANDS of guns could be created at one time rather than one gun at a time Whitney’s Creation led Mass Production which sped up the production of manufactured goods and made them much cheaper

Help Wanted With the Availability of Farmland in the United States, less people were working in factories than in Great Britain which led to higher wages in the United States over Great Britain This Led great Britain to produce MORE goods at a LOWER cost than the United States leading to less investments into factory work The industries that did expand were Cotton Goods, Flour Milling, Weapon Production, and Iron Production

American Owned…American Proud Before, and during, the War of 1812 Foreign Trade became increasingly difficult increasing the production of American Made Goods As American Goods became more popular, Investment into Industry increased and expanded the amount of new factories Americans Began to Buy more American Goods and became more self sufficient increasing the number of American Factories and Jobs This led to more pride in American Goods and More tariffs to help support Northern Industry

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