Matching Pairs U4-L1, L2Online version The Industrial Revolution in America. Changes in Working Life/Transportation Revolution. by Dawn Wooner 1 Interchangeable parts. 2 Ways life might change as a result of the Industrial Revolution. 3 Samuel Slater 4 Lowell system 5 Transportation Revolution. 6 Eli Whitney 7 Robert Fulton 8 Textiles 9 Ways railroads affect daily life or economy of U.S. 10 Industrial Revolution 11 Mass production. 12 Reasons mills were located in New England. 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. Tested first steamboat design in France (1803). Also tested first full-sized commercial steamboat. Cloth items (fabric, textile) 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. Inventor. Proposed ways to mass-produce guns for U.S. government using water-powered machinery. Invented the cotton gin. Plentiful river/water for reliable source of power. British mechanic. Immigrated to U.S. with memorized designs of textile machines. Improved mill and and production of cotton thread. 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. Economy grew. Easier and faster to get goods to distant markets. Enabled goods, people, and info to spread rapidly (increased population and prosperity). Moving from working on farms or in homes to working in factories. Loss of work for skilled laborers. Poor working conditions, Identical parts that can replace each other in a machine.
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