1. the Causes and effects of the First American Industrial Revolution
Mr. Lugo

2. Objectives: By the end of THE NEXT TWO classES, students will be able to:
Explain the changes that the Industrial Revolution brought to American life.
Discuss the importance of Samuel Slater’s cotton mill.
Describe the growth of industry in the United States after 1812.
Identify important developments in factories and the problems that factory life produced.
Identify and explain the Causes and Effects of the Industrial Revolution

3. Causes: Interchangeable Parts
Identical parts that can be substituted in the manufacture or repair of a product
Invented by Eli Whitney to make muskets for the U.S. government

4. Causes: Assembly Lines
Each worker adding one part in order to create a finished product
Used first in Lowell’s textile (clothes) factories
Resulted in the construction of factories across the Northern U.S.

5. Causes: Inventions Eli Whitney – Cotton gin
Elias Howe – Sewing Machine
Robert Fulton – Steam Boat
Francis Cabot Lowell and Samuel Slater – Assembly lines and factories
How did each of these inventions change the lives of Americans?

6. Effect: Speedy Production
Because of
Assembly lines
Interchangeable parts
Inventions

7. Effect: Craftsmen are Out
Most products used to be made by individual shop owners who were specialists
Each product was different
Now products were identical, and made in factories

8. Effect: Machines In Sewing Machines Cotton Gin Steam power
Bessemer Steel Process
resulted in large sky scrapers
that could now be built

9. Effect: Urbanization
More and more people moved to cities where there were factory jobs
This was more true of the North than the South which remained agricultural

10. Effect: Money Invested
Stock market invented
“investors” would receive a percentage of profits
New York came stock market center

11. Effect: More Workers Together
People worked in large factories instead of small shops
The workers were exposed to people from different cultures ( Potential for Cultural Diffusion)
The “working class” emerged

12. American industrial revolution summary
Machines took the place of many hand made products.
The factory system changed the way people worked. It brought workers and machinery together in one place.
Samuel Slater built his machine from memory because the British would not allow him to take the plans for these machines with him.
The Lowell Mill girls gained an education they normally would not have received on their family farms.
The First Industrial Revolution

13. Student practice/ application
1. Pair up with a classmate.
2. Read pages in your American history textbook.
3. Complete Checkpoint questions on pages , 387.
4. Complete Check your Progress Questions 1-2 on page 387.
5. Complete Exit Ticket Question.