First Industrial Revolution Objective: __________________________

First Industrial Revolution Objective: Transportation Improvements

__________________________ Canals ____________________________

Factory System Manufacturing

___________________ – factory producing cotton & its products  

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 

“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

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