Industrial Revolution Timeline by Nevシ

Urbanization 1850

nevanross — 2024-09-12 17:35:14 UTC

The movement of the population from farms to cities. In the 1800's nearly 5 million people lived in rural areas. During the industrial revolution people left farms for better job opportunities in the cities to work in factories. The issue of urbanization was the fact that so many people moved to cities it caused overpopulation and for cities to be crowded.

Daily Life in Factory Towns 1821

nevanross — 2024-09-12 17:53:37 UTC

Working and sometimes living at the factory. A good example of this is the Lowell girls, they wake up just to work for 12 hours a day and work for 6 days a week, they have Sunday off so they can go to church. They used to live in farms, they then moved there for a job which they get paid for and they use that money by giving it back to the campus.

Farm Machines 1825

nevanross — 2024-09-16 17:39:12 UTC

Machines that work with farms, in 1825 Jethro Wood made an iron plow with interchangeable parts. John Deere made the idea better when inventing a lightweight steel plow. This new invention is sturdier and faster at working than the other wooden plows.

Child Labor 1800's

nevanross — 2024-09-16 17:47:03 UTC

Boys and girls around the age of 7 had to work in factories. Smaller children were good and useful to use in textile Mills because they could squeeze around the large machines to change spindles. Nowaday people think child labor is cruel but back then it was seen as useful and necessary.

Inventions and Technology 1764

nevanross — 2024-09-17 00:46:30 UTC

In 1764 a guy named James Hargreaves made an invention called "The spinning Jenny" was made. It's job was to spin multiple threads at once, doing that makes it so that it makes clothes faster which can increase production rate and income.

Industry 1812

nevanross — 2024-09-17 00:51:38 UTC

During the war in 1812 a man named Francis Cabot Lowell found a way to improve how we make cloth. He made two factories, one had the job to spin the thread while the other wove it into cloth.

Market economy 1792

nevanross — 2024-09-17 00:58:23 UTC

In 1792 a group of 24 investors had started the new York stock exchange. This made it so the private capital had to pay for new ventures which means it brought great wealth to new investors AND made the economy grow

factories spread 1812

nevanross — 2024-09-17 01:02:56 UTC

the war of 1812 provided a boost to american industries. Britain's blockade against America cut us off from their help meaning we had to manufacture things on our own. That being said the U.S added more factories and boosted the economy GREATLY

immigration 1789

nevanross — 2024-09-17 01:08:31 UTC

A man named Samuel Slater was a skilled British worker who knew everything about Britain's ways of machinery. That being said he immigrated to the U.S to work more their because his knowledge and skills were just want the U.S needed/demanded

Telegraph 1844

nevanross — 2024-09-17 01:13:11 UTC

Samuel F. B. Morse received a patent for a "talking wire", the talking wire sent electric signals across the wire. Morse then devised a code which made it so you can send messages across