First Industrial Revolution
Objective:
Transportation
Improvements
__________________________
Canals
____________________________
Factory System
Manufacturing
___________________ – factory producing cotton & its products
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Lowell Mills: ______________________________________
new type of system to produce more product
Mill (factory) towns – NE & Midwest
Lowell Mills
Textile mills in Lowell, MA; females = 75% of workers
Conditions awful; _____________________________________!
Urbanization
develop ______________________________________
__________________________; especially on American east coast
__________________________ on the rise
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“new national literacy renaissance”
American west still very rural (except San Francisco)
Inventions
____________________ – transmission of written messages w/o
physical transport of letters
__________________ – machine that separates cotton fibers from
seedpods; Eli Whitney & slave
_____________________ – components of a device that can be
used for similar machines (ex. car parts today); Eli Whitney & gun
parts – puzzle the pieces back together
____________________ – Cyrus McCormick; faster way to harvest
crops
Summary: