Review 1
Before the Industrial Revolution, most people lived in small villages and worked in these two industries.
Farming and the crafting industry
Who is considered the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution“?
Samuel Slater
Name three ways the textile industry changed lives, for better or worse.
1. Clothes became cheaper and easier to get allowing for more people to afford to buy them, 2. people moved from farms to cities to work in the new factories, 3. workers, including children, worked long hours for little pay, 4. factories were filled with dust and the machines could be dangerous if someone was not careful, 5. the metal and engineering industries grew, 6. resources needed to run machines helped the mining industries, 7. the railroad industry would be created to carry goods and people from place to place.
What expanded due to the Industrial Revolution?
Overseas trade
Provide a definition of the Industrial Revolution.
A period of rapid growth in the use of machines for manufacturing and production.
Pre-Industrial Revolution, people made their own ________________, grew their own food, and built their own homes.
clothes
Who invented a large spinning machine called a water frame?
Richard Arkwright
How did Samuel Slater bring the technology of the Industrial Revolution to America?
Slater studied the textile mill plans in England and came to America.
What two resources did England have that gave them an advantage in growing manufacturing more quickly than other nations?
coal and iron
Where were large textile mills mostly built near due to the water frame?
Rivers and streams
In the late 1700s, the Industrial Revolution began in _________________ and spread to ____________________.
Great Britain, America
Samuel Slater immigrated to the United States after memorizing plans on how to build what in America?
A textile mill.
Where did Samuel Slater open his first textile mill?
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
What is the Rhode Island System?
The hiring of entire families to work in the mills, including women and children.
Where were the most textile mills built during the Industrial Revolution?
In the north.
The _______________________ was one of the first to change during the Industrial Revolution.
Textile (clothing)
Who came up with idea of interchangeable parts for weapons and machines in the textile mills, as well as the invention of the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
How was most manufacturing done at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?
By hand
Name two ways that American society changed due to the Industrial Revolution?
Factories grew larger and began to appear in cities and towns across the country, people moved from farms to cities to find work in factories, use of machines meant that goods could be made faster and sold at lower prices.
Describe the term interchangeable parts?
The idea of using identical parts in items like machines and weapons.
Who came up with the idea of interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney.
What is mass production?
The fact that interchangeable parts speed up the efficient production of large numbers of goods.
Why did U.S. manufacturing grow slowly at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?
Government officials believed few people would choose to work in factories if they could own a farm.
What increased in the South due to the invention of the cotton gin?
Slavery
Based on what you know about the Industrial Revolution, was industrialization a good thing of a bad thing? Provide examples to support your theory.
Provide your answers