Industrial Revolution

Until the 1800s, most families got the items they needed for daily life from the made tools, clothing, materials, and food by hand.

 The industrial revolution is the name for the change from goods being made by hand at home to making them by machine in factories.

In the late 1790s to the mid 1850s, the United States experienced its first Industrial Revolution. A revolution occurs when changes are so widespread that the ways people live and work undergo a tremendous change. During this time period the free-enterprise system of the United States economy developed.

In a free-enterprise system of economics, or market economy as it is sometimes called, people can own a business to make a profit, buy and sell goods, or work for wages without little government interference. The free-enterprise system determines what is produced, how much is produced, and for whom the product is produced.

 Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph. Which area of life was improved by this invention?

 The invention of the cotton gin increased the production of clothes

James Watt (1736-1819) is remembered for his pioneering work on steam engines. He invented the first straight line linkage.

In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

England

What had to occur before the Industrial Revolution could take place?

The Agricultural Revolution

Coal and iron are the natural resources and were the backbone of the Industrial Revolution.

Which innovation allowed factories to be built anywhere?

Stream Engine

The system in which the government owns and controls the means of production, such as mines and factories, is called?

Socialism