Industrial Revolution Timeline by Caiden Lebby

Urbanization 1850

caidenlebby — 2024-09-12 17:35:48 UTC

The movement of 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. An issue of urbanization was the fact that so many people moved to cities it cause over population and cities to be crowded.

Iron Plow 1825

caidenlebby — 2024-09-12 17:54:19 UTC

The year 1825 Jethro Wood started Manufacturing a tool called the Iron plow that had replaceable parts. It made it easier and faster plow through a field more quickly.

Spinning Jenny 1764

caidenlebby — 2024-09-13 17:35:11 UTC

Ever since the Middle Ages all workers used these spinning wheel to make their thread. In the Year James Hargreaves created the spinning Jenny. It would change how the goods were made in Britain,America and everywhere else in the world.

Child Labor Early 1800's

caidenlebby — 2024-09-13 17:45:24 UTC

Boys and Girls as young as seven years old often had to work in Factories. Young Children were useful in the Textile factories since they could squeeze through the large machines. They often worked 12 hours a day for 6 days. The money the children earned were usually used to help support the family. Most people didn't see a difference between children working in factories compared to working in farms.

Cast Iron Stove 1834

caidenlebby — 2024-09-16 17:38:02 UTC

Philo Stewart created an invention called the cast Iron Stove which was small enough to be used in a kitchen. In Philo's factory they made wood burning stove's which was a great success, Almost 90,000 were sold which was really good at the time. The cast iron stove was the one sign of the way the northern factories were actively changing the lives of people.

Lowell Girls 1842

caidenlebby — 2024-09-16 17:52:58 UTC

At first parents hesitated to let their Daughters work in the mills. The company reassured the parents by building them boardinghouses or buildings with many bedrooms. The Lowell girls made a major an Important economic contribution to the American Society by providing labor for the industrial Revolution and all their wages were sent to ther families

Yankee Clipper 1840's

caidenlebby — 2024-09-16 17:53:09 UTC

Railroads increased development and so did trading with other nations. Seaports in the Northeast captains loaded their ships up named "The Famed Yankee Clippers". with Cotton,fur,wheat,lumber and tobacco. Once they have all that they end up sailing off to other parts of the world.

The Erie Canal

caidenlebby — 2024-09-16 19:26:59 UTC

The Erie Canal opened a high volume trade route linking the Atlantic coast with the lakes, spurred vigorous settlement and development in the entire Great Lakes region, and established New York City as the commercial and economic center in United States.

Slavery in the south 1800s

caidenlebby — 2024-09-16 20:29:57 UTC

The life of enslaved African Americans were determined by many strict laws and most slave owners. The conditions varied from plantation to plantation. Most slave owners made sure that their enslaved workers cleaned cabins, had decent food and warm clothes.

Interchangeable 1798

caidenlebby — 2024-09-16 20:41:47 UTC

In the year 1798 Whitney began producing muskets in one of the first factories to work on different types of interchangeable parts. The main ideas of interchangeable parts spread rapidly, Inventions designed machine machines to produce interchangeable parts. The parts they made clocks,locks and more other goods.