QuizWho or what are the following?• Factory system• Eli Whitney• Samuel Slater

Short answer- pick 2 of the 3• discuss how Industrial Revolution changed the US.• Why were the factories founded in the North? How does this

affect the South?• Why were interchangeable parts such a big deal?

Learning targets review

• I can explain the roles Samuel Slater and Eli Whitney had in the Industrial Rev in the US

• I can explain what the factory system is• I can discuss how Industrial Revolution

changed the US.

Learning targets for today

• I can explain the Lowell mills• I can explain how technology helped with

Industrial Rev • I can discuss how the steam engine changed

the world

Working at the Mill

• Slater starts the 1st textile mill in the US. • Lowell 1st to use women as workers • Brought about the factory system ( workers

and machines under 1 roof) • located in N.E. to start because of the fast

moving rivers

Harnessing steam

• Using steam to run engines in machines. • Steamboat could be used to travel up and

down rivers/waterways much quicker than sailing ships.- Robert Fulton

• Trains used to get materials and goods to and from areas that boats could not reach. Peter Copper

• Could carry larger amounts of cargo then steamships.

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Technology

• Using the new ideas to make life “easier”. Machines such as the mechanical reaper/thresher are making the jobs easier for the workers.

• Steel plow made by John Deere allowed farmers to till new ground in the midwest.

Telegraph

• quick communications between places over any distance.

• Electrical pulses were used to make letters which in turn would spell out the message.

• Invented by Samuel Morse.

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Learning targets for today

• explain the Lowell mills• how does technology helped with Industrial

Rev • how did the steam engine changed the world