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THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
Industrialization and technological
improvements changed the way
that people lived.
The Industrial Revolution
“The process of change from an
agrarian, handicraft economy to
one dominated by industry and
machine manufacture.”
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/287086/Industrial-Revolution
British beginnings…
Goods were
made in factories
instead of homes
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Large
machines
required
new power
sources
New power
source =WATERWHEEL
James Watt
"steam engine: James Watt’s rotative steam engine". Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Web. 30 Jun. 2014. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/3683/James-Watts-rotative-steam-engine-with-sun-and-planet-gear>
• The enlarged mills
required larger
power sources.
• James Watt
invented the steam
engine to provide
the power required
by the mills
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"Singer Manufacturing Company factories". Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Web. 30 Jun. 2014. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/121149/Factories-of-the-Singer-
Manufacturing-Company-illustration-from-Great-Industries>
Image 2: Spinning wheel
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Dramatic Changes
Samuel Slater memorized the plans for factories
Illegally came to the U.S. first American mill (1790)
Slater, Samuel. Photograph. Britannica Online for Kids. Web. 30 June 2014.
<http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-52113>.www.loc.gov
Industrial Smuggling
Factory Cities
• Mills were constructed across the Northeast.
• One of the most well known factory towns was in
Lowell, Mass.
• “Lowell Girls”
"power loom". Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Web. 30 Jun. 2014.
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