industrial revolution time line period 4 by Cooper Vogt

Steel Plow 1825

coopervogt — 2024-09-12 15:24:45 UTC

Jethro woods created the iron plow. However john deer improved the iron plow by making it a steel plow

Lowell Mills 1821

coopervogt — 2024-09-12 15:30:50 UTC

Lowell mills were made by Francis Cabot Lowell in Massachusetts.These mills combined spinning and weaving under the same roof.

Spinning Jenny 1764

coopervogt — 2024-09-12 15:38:51 UTC

the spinning Jenny was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764. It was used to spin several threads at once.

Samuel Slater 1790

coopervogt — 2024-09-13 15:09:02 UTC

Samuel Slater, The creator of the Slater Mills in Rhode Island located by the black stone river.The Slater mills were powered by water and they were used as textile mills

Child Labor 1800s

coopervogt — 2024-09-13 15:15:21 UTC

boys and girls as young as seven worked in factories. Small children were especially useful in textile mills because they could squeeze around the large machines to change spindles.

urbanization 1800s

coopervogt — 2024-09-13 15:22:16 UTC

Urbanization was a steady but gradual process.In 1800, only 6 percent of the nations population lived in urban areas. By 1850 the number had risen to 15 percent. Not until 1920 did more americans live in cities than in rural areas.

The Mechanical Reaper 1847

coopervogt — 2024-09-13 15:27:50 UTC

The Mechanical Reaper by Cyrus McCormick built in 1847.Was used to gather wheat and grain in farm fields.

lowell girls 1821

coopervogt — 2024-09-13 15:38:43 UTC

To work their new mills the company hired young woman from nearby farm.The Lowell girls as they came to be called usually worked for a few years in the mills before returning home to marry. These young woman and woman like them in other mill towns made an important economic contribution to Americas society by providing labor for the Industrial Revolution. Most sent their wages home to their families.

interchangeable parts 1798

coopervogt — 2024-09-16 15:26:53 UTC

Eli Whitney wanted to speed up the making of guns by having machines manufacture each part. All machines made parts would be alike for example one trigger would be identical to another.identical parts would fit together with all other parts and gunsmiths would not have to build each gun from scratch. Interchangeable parts would save time and money.

capitalist 1793

coopervogt — 2024-09-16 15:36:57 UTC

To set up and operate a spinning mill required large amounts of capital or invested money.Capitalists supplied this money.A capitalist is a person who invests in a business to make a profit capitalists built factories and hired workers to run the machines.