Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 17, Lesson 1: Industrial Growth (pp. 422-425)
I. Inventions for Industry
B. British inventors built important machines which made goods more cheaply.
C. The British developed the factory where the new machines could be housed in one location.
D. This made Britain one of the most powerful countries in the world.
II. Industry in the United States
B. Cotton was made into cloth in textile mills in the United States.
C. Water from streams provided the power to run the first factories, most of which were in New England where rivers are plentiful.
D. In larger factories, many unmarried women worked for 13 hours a day for a daily wage of 35 cents.
B. The most important canal was the Erie Canal, carved from 363 miles of wilderness
between Albany and Buffalo, New York.
C. The Erie Canal caused New York to grow rapidly and become the largest center of trade in the country.
D. To compete with New York, cities began to build railroads to transport goods where canals could not go.
E. Railroads and canals helped connect different parts of the country.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. The Industrial Revolution, the time from 1770 to 1840, changed the way people
made and shipped goods.
A. Samuel Slater came to America and in 1793 built the first American factory in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
III. Changes in Transportation
A. People built canals to transport goods through the wilderness.
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