Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution

Who started the Industrial Revolution in the UNITED STATES?

• The Irish

• The Germans

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

What is the Factory System?

• Man-made water way for transporting goods. The Erie Canal linked the East and Central plains.

• Work was performed on a large scale in a single central location and employed young women.

• Cleaned cotton faster than 50 people and spread the need for cotton plantations.

• Textile Mills

Why did factories hire young women and children?

• Factory owners paid women less than men.

• Factory owners wanted to pay women and children more.

• Factory owners wanted to pay women and children less.

• Factory owners did not want to pay women or children.

What problems were caused by children working?

• The Federal Government began to hear complaints from parents.

• The Federal Government began to put federal laws prohibiting children from working.

• The factories had to pay medical insurance.

• Serious injuries and death from coal dust in their lungs.

Why was the geography of the Northeast important to the Industrial Revolution?

• Many workers found themselves living in slums.

• Britain paid factory owners to use Irish immigrants to work in factories and mills.

• Steamboats were able to use the Erie Canal to transport goods to and from the Midwest.

• Major rivers provided energy for mills, waterways to transport goods, and helped cities grow.

Why did people move to urban areas?

• People worked for businesses not the farm.

• People were tired of living in a rural area.

• The increased number of jobs encourage migration to cities.

• People wanted to live near the rivers.

What were some hazards of living in a city dwelling?

• No pool

  No room service

  No toilet paper

• Workers lived in slums with open sewers and tainted water that caused disease.

• Discrimination from Chinese.

• Discrimination from factory owners.

What are two ways the Industrial Revolution changed the United States?

• Farms stayed small

  Germans lived on the farms

• Factories made larger machines to work on the farms; farmers could make more food

• Transcontinental Railroad connected east to west.

• Factories made larger machines to work in the textile mills; people had more clothes

What did Eli Whitney create?

• Erie Canal

• Textile Mills

• Interchangeable Parts

• Steamboat

John Deere created the

• Donut cart

• mechanical reaper

• McCormick reaper

• steel plow