Industrial Revolution
Textiles
First major industry by the Industrial Revolution
Steam
replaces other types of energy such as human and animal power, windmills, and watermills
Samuel Slater
brought the Industrial Revolution to the US; Slater the Traitor
The Panic of 1819
Major economic crisis
Economic Elite
factory owners; inherited wealth; social clubs
Great Britain
Place where the Industrial Revolution first happened
Steamship
added a steam engine to ships
Eli Whitney
inventor of the cotton gin
Ohio fever
Manufacturing Class
upward mobility; come from nothing, gained wealth
The "mill girls"
Young women who worked at factories under close supervision
Steam Trains
saved time; could transport more products
Robert Fulton
inventor of the steamship
Land Fever and Banks
Banks gave out too m any loans to purchase lands
The Middle Class
occupations that require education; no physical labor
Putting-Out System
outsource the less skilled aspect of production
Cumberland Road
the only national road project from Maryland to Illinois
John Deere
inventor of the steel plow
"March of Progress"
new technology was good
The Working Class
wage worker; physical labor; factory worker
Dangers in the factories
fires, injuries from machines, abuse (child labor)
Turnpikes
for-profit private roads that charges a toll
Samuel Morse
inventor of the Morse Code
Chamber of Commerce
institution to protect business/owners/investors
Irish and Germans
immigrants who were arriving to the US and landing jobs at factories