Matching Pairs U4-L1, L2Online version The Industrial Revolution in America. Changes in Working Life/Transportation Revolution. by Dawn Wooner 1 Transportation Revolution. 2 Interchangeable parts. 3 Mass production. 4 Industrial Revolution 5 Ways life might change as a result of the Industrial Revolution. 6 Samuel Slater 7 Textiles 8 Reasons mills were located in New England. 9 Eli Whitney 10 Ways railroads affect daily life or economy of U.S. 11 Robert Fulton 12 Lowell system Economy grew. Easier and faster to get goods to distant markets. Enabled goods, people, and info to spread rapidly (increased population and prosperity). Cloth items (fabric, textile) Period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation. Steamboat and steam powered trains. Boom in business- lower shipping time and cost. British mechanic. Immigrated to U.S. with memorized designs of textile machines. Improved mill and and production of cotton thread. Identical parts that can replace each other in a machine. Inventor. Proposed ways to mass-produce guns for U.S. government using water-powered machinery. Invented the cotton gin. Tested first steamboat design in France (1803). Also tested first full-sized commercial steamboat. Plentiful river/water for reliable source of power. Based on water-powered textile mills that employed young, single women. System included a loom that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill. Started in Great Britain in mid-1700s. Period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production. Efficient, large-scale production of identical goods. Moving from working on farms or in homes to working in factories. Loss of work for skilled laborers. Poor working conditions,
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