11.1 The Industrial Revolution

11.1 The Industrial Revolution

by Steven

Multiple Choice

A _____________ occurs when goods and services are exchanged with little regulation

• judicial review

• free market

• embargo

• tariff

Multiple Choice

The agreement by the United States to buy a large area of land from France in the middle of North American was known as the

• Gettysburg Address

• manifest destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

• embargo

Multiple Choice

A ban on trade with a certain country is known as a(n):

• Gettysburg Address

• embargo

• judicial review

• Louisiana Purchase

Multiple Choice

British soldiers burned down the White House in Washington D.C during

• World War I

• Civil War

• War of 1812

• World War II

Multiple Choice

The __________________ changed the way products were made in the United States

• Industrial Revolution

• Louisiana Purchase

• embargo

• Gettysburg Address

​Industrial Revolution

• ​The Industrial Revolution was a long, slow process that completely changed the way in which goods were produced

• ​Before the 1800s, most Americans were farmers and most goods were produced by hand

• ​Machines replaced hand tools

• ​New sources of power, such as steam, replaced human and animal power

​New Technology

• ​The Industrial Revolution started in Britain in the mid 1700's

• ​British inventors developed new machines that transformed the textile industry

• ​Since the Middle Ages, worked had used spinning wheels to make a thread

• ​In 1764, James Hargreaves developed the spinning jenny, a machine that could spin several threads at once

​The Factory System

• ​Large machines had to be housed in factories

• ​To set up and operate a spinning mill required capital, or money

• ​A capitalist is a person who invests in a business in order to make a profit

• ​The new factory system brought workers and machinery together in one place to produce goods

​How did the Revolution cross the Atlantic? (how did it get from Britain to the United States?)

​Slater Breaks the Law

• ​Britain wanted to keep its technology secret and forbid anyone to take plans out of the country

• ​Samuel Slater was a British mechanic

• ​Slater memorized machine designs and went to the United States

• ​Slater set up a successful textile mill

• ​Soon other Americans began using his ideas

​Why did Samuel Slater have to memorize the machine plans?

​Where did Slater get the money to start his textile mill?

​Interchangeable Parts

• ​Eli Whitney was an important inventor

• ​Earlier, workers made products by hand

• ​Gunsmiths spent days making the barrel, stock, and trigger for a single musket

• ​Eli Whitney wanted to have machines make each part

• ​Interchangeable parts meant all machine made parts would be alike

What would happen to a handmade musket if one part broke?​

​What would happen to a machine-made musket if one part broke?

​Daily Life During the Industrial Revolution

• ​Boys and girls as young as 7 worked in factories

• ​workers in mills worked 12 hours a day, 6 days a week

• ​more family members left home to to earn a living

​Growing Cities

• ​During the Industrial Revolution, many people left farms to work in factories

• ​The movement of the population from farms to cities is called urbanization

• ​growing cities had many problems, such as a lack of sewer systems and the spread of disease