1. The North

2. Industrial Revolution
Period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid 1700s

3. Inventors Inventor Invention Effect Richard Arkwright Water Frame
Lowered cost, increased production, led to textile mills
Samuel Slater
Stole British’s (Arkwright) designs
Brought textile industry to America
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable parts
Mass production

4. Changes in Manufacturing
Interchangeable Parts
Machine Tools
Division of Labor
Equals= Mass Production

5. Mass Production: The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
Technology: Tools used to produce items or to do work.

6. History of Manufacturing
Slow in US because people have lots land
Britain does most of the manufacturing because they have a surplus of people that are willing to work for little pay.
War of 1812 causes Americans wanting to be self sufficient. They start making their own factories.
Tariffs are used to encouraging US manufacturing.

7. Person Effect Samuel Slater Francis Lowell Sarah G Bagley
Hired entire families
Divided into simple task
Company towns
Francis Lowell
Hired young women to work in mills
Encouraged women to get educated
Sarah G Bagley
Worked for labor reform
Founded Lowell Female Labor Reform Association

8. Working Conditions 12-14 Hours a day short lunch break Little Pay
Boring
Dangerous
Hazardous to Health

9. Trade Unions: Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
Workers on strike refuse to work until employees meet their demands.

10. Transportation Revolution
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.

11. Steamboat and Trains
Enabled goods, people, and information to travel rapidly and efficiently.
Increase business and population growth
Increased prosperity

12. Rise of the Trains
1840
1860
2,800 miles
30,000 miles

13. Effects of Industrial Revolution
North became wealthy, because it could increase the efficiency of moving goods and connecting businesses.
Cities become more important. Cities are built along railroad tracks.
People take pride in the economy
Coal becomes the national fuel
Other industries benefit because they help build things for the railroad companies
Newspaper businesses increase which increases deforestation

14. Mass Production of Home Goods
More Inventions
Telegraph
(Samuel Morse)
Improved Communication over long distances
Steel Plow
(John Deere)
Increase the amount of land one man could plow
Sewing Machine
Isaac Singer
Improve the convenience of mending and making clothes
Mass Production of Home Goods
Could buy everyday items that were more reliable and cheaper