1. Effects of the Industrial Revolution

2. The INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION changed the American economy.
Overview…
In the 1800s, most Americans worked on farms. Items that were not made at home or on a farm were manufactured – BY HAND – one at a time.
The INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION changed the American economy.

3. Main Idea…
By the early 1800s – NORTHERN STATES started using power-driven machinery that REVOLUTIONIZED the way that Americans worked, traveled and communicated and created MASSIVE economic growth for the American economy.

4. Vocabulary Labor: work
Efficient: production with the least amount of effort or expense
Interchangeable: parts that are made similarly for multiple products
Immigration: individuals that permanently travel to another country
Urbanization: people moving from the countryside to the cities for work
Urban: city
Deplorable: horrible, unsafe
Unsanitary: unclean, unhygienic
Manufacturers: business owners

5. There are FIVE main effects that happened as a result of the Industrial Revolution
Mass Production
Interchangeable Parts
Low Cost of Goods
Urbanization
Deplorable Work Conditions

6. MASS PRODUCTION
Because of the Industrial Revolution, many goods were produced in a relatively short amount of time and shipped to consumers
Creation of a lot of goods efficiently
Efficient: productivity with the least amount of wasted effort or expense.

7. INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS
Many machine parts and goods were made similarly – so that if the machine part broke they could SUBSTITUTE the broken part with a similar part.
Efficient and saved money.

8. LOW COST OF GOODS
Cost of supplies, goods and services decreased due to industrialization.
Individuals were able to buy essential goods for reasonable prices

9. Urbanization
American citizens began moving away from farms and rural areas, into large NORTHERN cities.
Urban: city
Urbanization: people moving to the cities to find work

11. Urbanization… The biggest and most important during this time were:
New York, New York
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland, Ohio
Detroit, Michigan
Boston, Massachusetts

13. DEPLORABLE WORK CONDITIONS
Many men, women and children were forced to work in factories that were:
extremely unsafe
extremely unsanitary (dirty)
mismanaged
Problems with industrialization
Factory workers were not paid well
Many became sick/died
Many factory workers were young immigrant women and poor children

14. Industrialization in the North

15. Industrialization happened in THREE steps…
Division of Labor
Special Factories
Machinery

16. Division of Labor DIVISION OF LABOR:
Manufacturers made products by dividing the tasks involved among the workers
Workers would work on DIFFERENT PARTS of the same product

17. Example: Division of Labor
Dividing the tasks saves TIME and MONEY.
STEP ONE: One worker would spin the thread for a sheet.
STEP TWO: The next worker would weave the cloth into a pattern.
STEP THREE: The last worker would package the cloth

19. Special Factories
2. SPECIAL factories: Manufacturers built factories for specialized PARTS of a product

20. Example: Special Factories
A factory for building parts of a car, instead of the WHOLE CAR.

21. Machinery
3. MACHINERY: Manufacturers used machines to perform work that was previously completed using people.

22. Example: Machinery
Workers would NO LONGER weave cloth by hand, they would use a machine! Using machines to accomplish tasks was cheaper for a business and also cut time.