The Factory System

The assembly line was a system through which items were mass-produced in a flow.

production

Steamboat

A boat that moves by the power of a steam engine, made it easier and quicker to travel goods

One strategy factory owners used to increase profits involved

paying lower wages to adult workers.

Which type of air pollution was caused by factories during the Industrial Revolution?

smoke from burning coal

Which are examples of new technologies that helped the factory system grow?

steam engines and sewing machines

telegraph

A device invented by Samuel Morse for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and 1840s.

Cotton Gin

A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793

Spinning Jenny

A machine that could spin several threads at once

Reaper

A machine that cuts cereal grain standing in a field

Which explains why factory owners' profits grew quickly during the Industrial Revolution?

Factories were making more products to sell by using cheaper labor.

What advantages did machinery provide for factory owners?

Factory owners needed more unskilled workers to run the machines.

According to the image, why would the Industrial Revolution have pleased consumers?

They had more options in a variety of prices.

"Lowell Girls"/Factory Girls 1820-30's

Young single women that were the primary source of labor in the factory system in Lowell, Massachusetts

power loom

a loom operated mechanically, run by water putting the loom side by side with the spinning machines in factories, changed workers job from running it to watching it, Invented in 1787, invented by Edward Cartwright , it speeded up the production of textiles

Doctors, lawyers, managers and other middle-class workers during the Industrial Revolution were collectively known as the .

bourgeoisie