The Industrial Revolution Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution is when people stopped making stuff at home and

Cotton gin • His cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton.

Steam Engine • The steam engine was not just a transportation device. It ran

Telegraph • Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps

Pull factors • Immigrants come to the USA and Canada for jobs and opportunities.

• Pull factors are good stuff to bring immigrants here like jobs.

Push factors • Push factors are bad stuff to push immigrants away like war

Child labor • Many immigrants put their children to work ASAP.

• Girls were preferred over boys in the textile industry. They were paid

Labor Reform • Labor unions struggled in the 1800 s to fight for better

Labor reform • Unions went on strike, and they often turned violent.

• The Factory Acts were laws that prohibited child labor.

• The also limited the number of hours that you worked

• The Factory Acts also required workplace safety.

These are young men who worked in textile factories. They have been maimed/crippled either

Industrial efficiency • Henry Ford learned that the less people had to move, the

Model T • The Model T was the first car that middle class people

Model T • The assembly line lowered the cost of the Model T from

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The Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution is when people stopped making stuff at home and started making stuff in factories.

Cottage Industry

Factory system

Cotton gin • His cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton.

Steam Engine • The steam engine was not just a transportation device. It ran entire factories the way rivers used to.

Steam engine

Railroads

Early Canals

Panama Canal

Telegraph • Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code).

Immigration

Pull factors • Immigrants come to the USA and Canada for jobs and opportunities.

• Pull factors are good stuff to bring immigrants here like jobs.

• Jobs pulled immigrants here.

Push factors • Push factors are bad stuff to push immigrants away like war or disease or the potato famine.

• Many immigrants lived in tenements.

Tenement or Slum

Child labor • Many immigrants put their children to work ASAP.

Child labor • Shoeshine boys

Child labor • Bowling pin boys

Child labor • Coal miner boys

Child labor • Young miner

• Girls were preferred over boys in the textile industry. They were paid less, and had smaller hands to work with the treads.

Labor Reform • Labor unions struggled in the 1800 s to fight for better working conditions (shorter work day, workers’ comp).

Labor reform • Unions went on strike, and they often turned violent.

Unions are still very active

• The Factory Acts were laws that prohibited child labor.

• The also limited the number of hours that you worked

• The Factory Acts also required workplace safety.

These are young men who worked in textile factories. They have been maimed/crippled either by the machines or from years of labour that broke down their limbs.

Industrial efficiency • Henry Ford learned that the less people had to move, the faster they would work.

Ford’s assembly line

• The first cars were very expensive.

Model T • The Model T was the first car that middle class people could afford.

Model T • The assembly line lowered the cost of the Model T from $825 to $300.