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The Industrial Revolution in America DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A SECTION 1 The Industrial TEKS 5B, 5D, 7A, 11A, 12C, 12D, 13A, Revolution in 13B, 14A, 14B, 27A, 27D, 28B What You Will Learn… America Main Ideas 1. The invention of new machines in Great Britain If YOU were there... led to the beginning of the You live in a small Pennsylvania town in the 1780s. Your father is a Industrial Revolution. 2. The development of new blacksmith, but you earn money for the family, too. You raise sheep machines and processes and spin their wool into yarn. Your sisters knit the yarn into warm brought the Industrial Revolu- tion to the United States. wool gloves and mittens. You sell your products to merchants in the 3. Despite a slow start in manu- city. But now you hear that someone has invented machines that facturing, the United States made rapid improvements can spin thread and make cloth. during the War of 1812. Would you still be able to earn the same amount The Big Idea of money for your family? Why? The Industrial Revolution trans- formed the way goods were produced in the United States. BUILDING BACKOU GR ND In the early 1700s making goods depend- ed on the hard work of humans and animals. It had been that way for Key Terms and People hundreds of years. Then new technology brought a change so radical Industrial Revolution, p. 385 that it is called a revolution. It began in Great Britain and soon spread to textiles, p. 385 the United States. Richard Arkwright, p. 385 Samuel Slater, p. 386 technology, p. 387 Eli Whitney, p. 387 The Industrial Revolution interchangeable parts, p. 387 At the beginning of the 1700s, the majority of people in Europe mass production, p. 387 and the United States were farmers. They made most of what they needed by hand. For example, female family members usually made clothing. First, they used a spinning wheel to spin raw materials, such as cotton or wool, into thread. Then they used a hand loom to Use the graphic organizer online weave the thread into cloth. to list the key contributors to the Some families produced extra cloth to sell to merchants, who sold Industrial Revolution and their it for a profit. In towns, a few skilled workers made goods by hand in inventions. their own shops. These workers included blacksmiths, carpenters, and shoemakers. Their ways of life had stayed the same for generations. A Need for Change By the mid-1700s, however, changes in Great Britain led to a greater demand for manufactured goods. As agriculture and roads 384 CHAPTER 12 DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A Textile Mill and Water Frame After the thread was spun, it moved to the CONNECT TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY loom to be woven into A water frame adapts the power of cloth. Workers called flowing water into energy that moves spoolers watched the wheels and gears through a system looms and made sure that of belts. These wheels and gears then the spools of thread were kept straight. move parts of machines such as looms and spinning wheels. Then the raw cotton was spun into thread on a spinning frame. Flowing water from a river turned A machine for clean- the waterwheel. The giant wheel ing the raw cotton was turned smaller gears connected to the first step. belts. These belts moved parts of the machinery in the mill. ANALYSIS SKILL ANALYZING VISUALS What provided the power for the machines in the mill? improved, cities and populations grew. Over- In 1769 Englishman Richard Arkwright seas trade also expanded. Traditional manu- invented a large spinning machine called a facturing methods did not produce enough water frame. The water frame could produce goods to meet everyone’s needs. dozens of cotton threads at the same time. It People began creating ways to use lowered the cost of cotton cloth and increased ACADEMIC machines to make things more efficient. the speed of textile production. VOCABULARY These developments led to the Industrial The water frame used flowing water as its efficient productive and Revolution, a period of rapid growth in using source of power. Merchants began to build not wasteful machines for manufacturing and production large textile mills, or factories, near rivers and that began in the mid-1700s. streams. The mills were filled with spinning machines. Merchants began hiring people to Textile Industry work in the mills. The first important breakthrough of the Additional improvements also speeded Industrial Revolution took place in how up the spinning process. Britain soon had textiles, or cloth items, were made. Before the the world’s most productive textile manufac- Industrial Revolution, spinning thread took turing industry. much more time than making cloth. Several workers were needed to spin enough thread READING CHECK Drawing Conclusions How to supply a single weaver. did machines speed up textile manufacturing? THE NORTH 385 DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A New Machines and Processes first mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The production of cotton thread by American New machines encouraged the rise of new machines had begun. Slater ran the mill and processes in business and manufacturing. the machinery. He was confident that his As the machines used to make products new machines would work well. became more efficient, the processes involved changed dramatically. “If I do not make as good yarn as they do in England, I will have nothing for my services, but Slater and His Secrets will throw the whole of what I have attempted The new textile machines allowed Great over the bridge.” Britain to produce cloth more quickly and —Samuel Slater, quoted in The Ingenious Yankees, by Joseph and Francis Gies inexpensively than other countries could. To protect British industry, the British Parlia- Slater’s machines worked, and the ment had made it illegal for skilled mechan- Pawtucket mill became a success. Slater’s wife ics or machine plans to leave the country. also invented a new cotton thread for sewing. Disguised as a farmer, Samuel Slater, a In 1798 Slater formed his own company to skilled British mechanic, immigrated to the build a mill. By the time he died in 1835, he United States after carefully memorizing the owned all or part of 13 textile mills. designs of textile mill machines. Soon after Other Americans began building textile arriving, he sent a letter to Moses Brown, mills. Most were located in the Northeast. who owned a textile business in New In New England in particular, merchants England. Slater claimed he could improve had the money to invest in new mills. More the way textiles were manufactured in the important, this region had many rivers United States. and streams that provided a reliable supply Brown had one of his workers test of power. Fewer mills were built in the Slater’s knowledge of machinery. Slater South, partly because investors in the South passed. Brown’s son, Smith Brown, and concentrated on expanding agriculture. son-in-law, William Almy, formed a partner- There, agriculture was seen as an easier way ship with Slater. In 1793 they opened their to make money. Elements of Mass Production CONNECT TO ECONOMICS Mass-production techniques allow manu- facturers to efficiently create more goods for the marketplace. Mass production requires the use of interchangeable parts, machine tools, and the division of labor. Why are interchangeable parts important? Interchangeable Parts Machine Tools Eli Whitney developed the idea of Machine tools like this one using interchangeable parts. Inter- make parts that are identi- changeable, or identical, parts are cal and therefore inter- needed so each part does not have changeable. to be custom-made by hand. 386 CHAPTER 12 DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A A Manufacturing Breakthrough Whitney also came up with the idea Despite these great changes, most manu- of using interchangeable parts — parts of facturing was still done by hand. In the late a machine that are identical. Using inter- 1790s the U.S. government worried about a changeable parts made machines easier to possible war with France, so it wanted more assemble and broken parts easier to replace. muskets for the army. Skilled workers made Whitney promised to build 10,000 muskets the parts for each weapon by hand. No two in two years. The federal government gave parts were exactly alike, and carefully fitting him money to build his factory, and in 1801 all the pieces together took much time and Whitney was called to Washington, D.C., to skill. give a demonstration. As a result, American gun makers could Whitney stood before President John not produce the muskets quickly enough to Adams and his secretary of war. He had an satisfy the government’s demand. Factories assortment of parts for 10 guns. He then ran- domly chose parts and quickly assembled needed better technology , the tools used to produce items or to do work. them into muskets. To the audience’s amaze- In 1798 inventor Eli Whitney tried to ment, he repeated the process several times. address some of these problems. Whitney Whitney’s Influence gave officials a proposal for mass-producing Whitney had proven that American guns for the U.S. government using water- inventors could improve upon the new powered machinery. Whitney explained British technology. Machines that produced the benefits of his ideas. matching parts soon became standard in industry. Interchangeable parts sped up “I am persuaded that machinery moved by water [and] adapted to this business would mass production , the efficient production greatly reduce the labor and facilitate [ease] of large numbers of identical goods.
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