1. Industrial Revolution

2. Industrialization
Transformed agricultural and handicraft-centered economies into economies of industry and machine manufacture
(Assembly lines will eventually be used in this process, making it even faster)
High production
Low Cost
More Materialism for average People

3. Samuel Slater Brought the factory system to the United States
Makes industrialization possible (high production, low cost)

4. First Factory System in U.S.
1793: First Textile Mill in Rhode Island
Production of cotton thread by machine

5. Video
Industrial Revolution

6. Working Conditions Workers performed monotonous single tasks
Lack of fulfillment
Unskilled Work
Low wages
Strict discipline
Long work hours
Six days a week, hour days
Dangerous and unhealthy work conditions
Child Labor

7. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
So many bodies littered the ground from people jumping out of windows that the fire trucks struggled to get close enough to fight the fire.

13. Inventions of the Revolution
Steel Tipped Plow: Plow the rich soils of the Mid West
Telegraph: Electric wire used to communicate across long distances
Steam Engine
Cotton Gin
Railroad