1. CHAPTER 11 LESSON 1
A GROWING ECONOMY

2. INDUSTRIAL GROWTH
THE INDUSTIRAL REVOLUTION BEGINS IN ENGLAND IN THE MID 1700s
MACHINES BEGAN TO DO JOBS ONCE DONE BY HAND
Production increased and the cost of goods decreased
People began to leave their homes and farms to work in factories (mills) and collect wages. This made huge difference in how things were made.
The first industry affected by the industrial revolution was the textile (cloth making) industry.
New power source- water power replace human and animal power
Cities began to grow around rivers and streams because factories (mills) developed there
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN THE U.S.
Came to the U.S. Around 1800 from England
Because the geography of New England, industry developed there first.
Fast rivers and streams for power and poor soil lead people to work in mills
Good ports and shipping also helped industry develop there.

3. INDUSTRIAL GROWTH….. continued
NEW INVENTIONS
Technology drove the industrial revolution
1793 Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
Factory system and interchangeable parts
RISE OF FACTORIES
PATENTS protected peoples inventions to help them make money
SAMUEL SLATTER brought the Industrial Revolution to America by building the first U.S. factory
FRANICS CABOT LOWELL improved on the factory system. He put all the manufacturing steps in one place.

4. FREE ENTERPRISE
THE FREE ENTERPRISE ECONOMIC SYSTEM HELPED SPUR INDUSTRIAL GROWTH.
CAPITAL
CAPITALIST
CAPITALISM
ELEMENTS OF THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM
1- ECONOMIC FREEDOM
2- PROFIT
3- PRIVATE PROPRETY
4- COMPETITION
. PEOPLE ARE FREE TO WORK WHERE THEY WISH
.BUY WHAT THEY WISH
. PRODUCE WHAT THEY WISH
Youtube “The Promises of Free Enterprise”

5. AGRICULTURE GROWS
Despite increasing industrialization most Americans still live and worked on farms.
AGRICULTURE MOVED WEST
RASIED PORK AND GREW CASH CROPS LIKE CORN AND WHEAT
IN THE SOUTH, COTTON PRODUCTION ROSE SHARPLY
THE DEMAND FOR COTTON GREW STEADLY AS THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY GREW
SOUTHERNERS NEEDED MORE LAND AND MORE SLAVES TO GROW COTTON

6. ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE
INVESTORS PROVIDED MONEY NECESSARY TO BUILD NEW BUSNESSES IN HOPE TO MAKE MONEY
PEOPLE INVESTED IN CORPORATIONS
SHARES= OWNERSHIP-IN HOPES OF MAKING A PROFIT
CITES BEGAN TO GROW DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
ALONG RIVERS
WATER POWER
SHIPPPING
CITES POSITIVES
AVAILABLE JOBS
LEASURE TIME – LIBRAIRES, MUSEUMS, SHOPS
CITIES NEGATIVES
FIRE
LACK OF SEWERS LED TO DISEASES