A REVOLUTION OF INDUSRY

BEFORE THE REVOLUTION

• Loose communications
• All handmade tools and clothes
• Producing items was slow

BRITISH ORIGINS

• British inventors
• A new approach to manufacturing
• Coal power and factories

THE FIRST MACHINES

• Textile machines
• The cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney
• The nation's productivity skyrockets

INNOVATION IN AMERICA

• Americans and other countries catch on
• Primary income - international trade
• Americans invest in American ventures

MASS PRODUCTION

• Companies would use machines to mass produce
• Goods could be made at a lower cost
• Blue collar workers maintained machines

EFFECTS OF THE I.D.

• No laws regulated how factories operated
• Child labor and no limits on waste
• Terrible working and living conditions
• Public health plummeted
• Small towns became urbanized