BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, SAM SLATER, INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS, MILL GIRLS AND URBANIZATION

1. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

2. WHERE DID THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION START???

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THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
BEGAN IN BRITAIN
IT CROSSED THE
ATLANTIC OCEAN
TO THE UNITED
STATES

3. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION


BRITAIN WANTED TO
KEEP ITS NEW
TECHNOLOGY
SECRET
A LAW WAS PASSED
FORBIDDING ANYONE
TO TAKE PLANS OF
THE NEW MACHINERY
OUT OF THE
COUNTRY.

4. SLATER BREAKS THE LAW


SAM SLATER WAS A SKILLED
MECHANIC, HE DECIDED TO
LEAVE BRITAIN AND
MEMORIZED THE DESIGN OF
MACHINES IN THE MILL
HE CAME TO AMERICA AND
BUILT THE FIRST
SUCCESSFUL TEXTILE MILL
IN AMERICA POWERED BY
WATER

5. WHAT ARE INTERCHANGEABLE
PARTS???

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
ELI WHITNEY DEVELOPS
INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS
TO SPEED UP PRODUCTION
INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS
MEANS ALL MACHINE MADE
PARTS WOULD IDENTICAL
INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS
WOULD SAVE TIME AND
MONEY

6. WHO WERE THE “LOWELL
GIRLS”??


YOUNG WOMEN HIRED
FROM NEARBY FARMS
WERE CALLED “LOWELL
GIRLS”
YOUNG WOMEN
BETWEEN THE AGES 15
TO 25 WERE RECRUITED
TO WORK IN THE MILLS

7. WHO WERE THE “LOWELL
GIRLS”??


MOST YOUNG WOMEN
WENT TO WORK IN THE
MILLS BECAUSE THEIR
FAMILIES NEEDED
MONEY
MILL GIRLS WORKED 12
TO 14 HRS A DAY
EXCEPT ON SUNDAY

8. LONG HOURS & CHILD LABOR


AS THE MILL GIRLS
BEGAN TO LEAVE THE
MILLS, IMMIGRANTS
TOOK OVER THE JOBS
FOR LONGER HOURS
AND LESS PAY
CHILDREN AS YOUNG
AS SEVEN WORKED IN
FACTORIES

9. WHAT IS URBANIZATION???
DURING THE
INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION MANY
PEOPLE LEFT
FARMS TO WORK IN
FACTORIES THIS
WAS CALLED
URBANIZATION

10. NEW TECHNOLOGY
THE SPINNING
JENNY DEVELOPED
BY JAMES
HARGREAVES
COULD SPIN
SEVERAL THREADS
AT ONCE.

11. NEW TECHNOLOGY
THE POWER LOOM

12. TURN TO PAGE 336 IN YOUR AMERICAN
NATION TEXTBOOK TO SEE HOW A
TEXTILE MILL WORKS
THE POWER LOOM

13. WHO WAS LISTENING???
1. WHERE DID THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
START?
2. WHO MEMORIZED THE DESIGN OF
MACHINES IN HIS HEAD AND CAME TO
AMERICA?
3. WHO WERE THE “LOWELL GIRLS”?
4. WHAT IS URBANIZATION??