The Growth Industrialization

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The Growth Industrialization

• Advances in technology
• The growth of industry
• The Emergence of the factory system

2
The Industrial Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution was a period of rapid
  change in the U.S. were machines replaced hand
  crafted labor as the main work force.
• The factory system brings many workers and
  machines together under one roof to make goods.

3
The Industrial Revolution

• Before 1815, goods had been made in shops by
  craftsmen who specialized in making a certain
  good.
• With machines workers were now unskilled because
  the machines did the work. Wages go down.

4
The Textile Factory

• 1790, Samuel Slater builds the first textile mill
  in the U.S. after learning textile secrets in
  England.
• Inventions in agriculture produce large harvest
  which will feed factory workers.
• 1820, wealthy Boston merchants build the Lowell
  Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. Its labor force
  is entirely women.

5
Factories in New England

• Factories are located in New England for 2
  reasons
• fast moving rivers supply the factories with
  water power
• there is a large population of people to work in
  the factories

6
The Steam Engine

• The steam engine after 1830 will be used to power
  the factories
• The steam engine will also help factories move
  their goods to market because steam engines power
  steamboats that carry the finished goods to
  market.

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The Lowell Mills

• Workers worked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. a day, six
  days a week.
• There were 30 minute breaks for lunch.
• You could be fined for being late to work. So
  workers ran back to work after lunch.
• Females workers live in boarding house with a
  matron.
• Workers are encouraged to attend school, church,
  and be respectful.

8
The Lowell Mills

• Workers were paid anywhere from 2.40 to 3.20 a
  week depending on how fast you worked.
• Workers could lose fingers and limbs in the mill
  machinery.
• Workers did the same thing for 12 hours.

9
Interchangeable Parts

• Eli Whitney will introduce the idea of
  Interchangeable parts is the process of making an
  item out of parts that are identical and be mass
  produced
• It will help in the development of guns, machines
  and goods

10
Interchangeable parts

• The impact of interchangeable parts
• goods are made faster
• repairs to goods are easy because they are made
  from the same pieces
• work is not hard almost anyone can do it- so you
  can pay people less

11
Cheap labor

• Workers leave after about five years to get
  married.
• By the 1830s there is a drive to increase
  textile production
• As workers leave Irish immigrants and children
  are hired to work.

12
Lowell and the environment

• Mills are built along waterways to produce power
  and transport textile material to market.
• Dams are erected to control flow of water to
  mills which floods farmlands, destroys the
  ecosystems of waterways.
• Disease and epidemics flourished because of
  waste, contamination and rodents.