1. Comparing Labor systems
Take out your HW and the Venn diagram
Review your Venn diagram comparing the factory and the plantation rules:
Review the similarities and differences found
What kinds of behavior and values did the rules seek to promote?
Which managers/overseers appeared to have more responsibilities? Why?
Why do you think there were so many extra measures taken for the care and feeding of the slaves as opposed to mill workers?

2. New Inventions
New inventions will make work easier for farmers and will allow them to grow more crops
Steam powered machines will transform the textile industry – no longer will factories have to be near water!
Steam locomotives and ships, as well as the fast moving Clipper ships will speed up shipping

3. New Machines transform the TEXTILE industry
John Kay – Flying Shuttle
James Hargreaves Spinning Jenny
Richard Arkwright Waterframe

4. Machines transform Farming

5. Was – harvesting with hand reaper
A scythe is a tool used by ancient farmers during harvest

6. Became

7. Today

8. Was – wooden plow

9. Became (iron replaces wood)

10. Today

11. Was

12. Became http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lki3jxNLVCI

13. Telegraph lines follow rail tracks

14. Was

16. Became – Steam powered

17. Today

18. Was

19. Became

20. Today

21. “Old Immigration”
Before the Civil War, most immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe - England, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia.

22. Why do people move? Push Factors:
Negative conditions that cause someone to leave their previous residence.
Pull Factors:
Positive conditions which (real or speculated) that cause someone to come to a new residence.

23. PUSH Population growth Agricultural changes Crop Failures
Industrial Revolution
Religious and Political Turmoil

24. PULL
Freedom
Economic Opportunity
Abundant Land

25. Factory Labor

26. The Factory System Harsh life for workers Rigid schedule Long Hours
Dangerous conditions
Mostly employed woman and children

28. Francis Lance, 5 years old, jumps on and off trolleys to sell newspapers.
Tony Casale, 11, has been selling newspapers for four years.

29. Oyster shuckers working in a canning factory
Oyster shuckers working in a canning factory. Began at 3:30 AM and worked to 5 PM.

32. Workers Organize Trade unions – demand shorter workday,
higher wages, better conditions
Lowell Female Labor Reform Association (LFLRA)

33. Discrimination/Prejudice
Policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain groups of people
African-Americans in the North and most immigrant groups were denied the vote, the jury box, positions in the gov’t, the army, access to public lands, and public school
Limited job opportunities

35. Nativists – wanted to preserve the country for ‘native-born’ white citizens Know-Nothing Party – political party that grew out of hostility for new immigrants

36. Against all odds, some did succeed…

37. Welcome to your new job!
The year is 1855, you work in a factory in the North
The factory wants to begin producing the countries new trend:
Paperclip bracelets!
Oh yeah!

38. Step 1 – lay out your paperclips
Step 2 – attach one, then pass to the next person
Step 3 – continue until it reaches the last person – their job is to connect the strand to each other (5 paperclips per bracelet)
You have 2 minutes to create as many bracelets as you can!