1. EARLY INDUSTRY and INVENTIONS

2. How did the Industrial Revolution change the way people worked?
Farming to Factories
Hand tools to machine
More goods, more quickly!

3. Where did the Industrial
Revolution begin?

4. How did the Industrial Revolution make its way to America????

5. Four reasons New England was a good place to set up factories?

6. Rivers for water power
Willing workers (subsistence farmers)
Seaports for exporting
Wealthy investors

7. For each inventor, name his invention and tell how his invention impacted life:

8. Samuel Slater First water powered textile mill in America
Spinning mill

9. Francis Cabot Lowell Factory that spun raw cotton into yarn
Women entered the work force

10. Who were the “Lowell girls”?

11. *Farm girls who moved into boarding houses to work in Lowell factories
*Long hours and poor working conditions but living conditions better than at home

12. Robert Fulton
Improved steamboat
Faster water transportation

13. Samuel F.B. Morse
telegraph – Morse Code
faster communication

14. John Deere
steel plow
for harder soil of Midwest

15. Cyrus McCormick
mechanical reaper
faster/easier harvesting crops

16. Who came up with the idea for interchangeable parts
Who came up with the idea for interchangeable parts? How did interchangeable parts change industry?
Eli Whitney
Faster production
Easier repairs
Assembly line