1. Industrial Revolution in America

2. An Industrial Revolution is a change in the way goods are produced
From hand made to machine made
Manufacturing replaces farming as the main form of work

3. Why is there an Industrial Revolution ?
King Cotton – increase in cotton production
War of US was forced to start making it’s own products
New Inventions

4. Cotton Gin, new forms of transportation and the Spinning Jenny and power loom (machines to produce cloth)

5. Interchangeable parts
Parts that are exactly alike
Invented by Eli Whitney
Made production faster and repairs easier
Now unskilled workers can produce goods

6. Factory System= machines and workers together
Starts in New England
Samuel Slater opens the 1st textile mill (cloth factory) in Rhode Island in 1790

7. WHY NEW ENGLAND? 2. There are workers (farming doesn’t = $$ there)
1. Need water power- there are many fast moving rivers
2. There are workers (farming doesn’t = $$ there)
- Mills start hiring girls, they live in boarding houses

10. Lowell Mills (Lowell, Mass) is an example of factory life for the girls