Factories machines replace hand tools.
Manufacturing replaces farming as main business
Mostly in the North
Factories in New England-
Factories mostly came from New England
1st Samuel Slater Rhode Island
N.E. had many fast moving rivers for power
N.E. ports and ships for transportation
New England Factory-
Large factory
Near fast rivers/waterfalls
people moved from farms to cities
Lowell Mills-
Lowell mills employed women in mills
woman got paid 2-3 dollars a week
worked in very dangerous conditions
Eli Whitney-
inventor interchangeable parts
before guns were made individually took a box of parts to demonstrate
made gun from pile of parts
Moving people, Goods, Messages-
Samuel Morris -telegraph
Robert Fulton-steamboat
allowed boats to go up river
Telegraph-
Invented 1837
steamboat and telegraph helped bring nation together
John Deere invents steel plow
Cyrus McComick invents Reaper
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