Reasons mills were located in New England.
Transportation Revolution.
Eli Whitney
Samuel Slater
Textiles
Industrial Revolution
Ways railroads affect daily life or economy of U.S.
Ways life might change as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
Interchangeable parts.
Robert Fulton
Lowell system
Mass production.
Inventor. Proposed ways to mass-produce guns for U.S. government using water-powered machinery. Invented the cotton gin.
Moving from working on farms or in homes to working in factories. Loss of work for skilled laborers. Poor working conditions,
British mechanic. Immigrated to U.S. with memorized designs of textile machines. Improved mill and and production of cotton thread.
Plentiful river/water for reliable source of power.
Tested first steamboat design in France (1803). Also tested first full-sized commercial steamboat.
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.
Efficient, large-scale production of identical goods.
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.
Economy grew. Easier and faster to get goods to distant markets. Enabled goods, people, and info to spread rapidly (increased population and prosperity).
Started in Great Britain in mid-1700s. Period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production.
Identical parts that can replace each other in a machine.
