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.”

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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

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• 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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Dramatic Changes

Samuel Slater memorized the plans for factories

Illegally came to the U.S. first American mill (1790)

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Industrial Smuggling

Factory Cities

• Mills were constructed across the Northeast.

• One of the most well known factory towns was in

Lowell, Mass.

• “Lowell Girls”

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