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inventions that make your life easy! 5+

TheIndustrial Revolution

What does Industry mean?

Economic system of taking raw materials and creating manufactured goods

What does Revolution mean?Ex: American Revolution

French Revolution

A Big Change

What does Industrial Revolution mean?

A big change in the way we manufacture goods

Moving from producing raw materialsto producing manufactured goods

I. Manufacturing in America BEFORE the Industrial Revolution

Economy based on Industryand Manufactured Goods

Economy based on Agriculture, farming and cash crops

(plantation system)

Remember…most people lived on small farms at this time. Getting goods was not easy, so they grew and made what they needed themselves if the

could.

Encourages creativity

Benefits hard

workers

Allows you to move social

classes

Free Enterprise system (Capitalism)

1- Limited Government interferenceThe Government mostly stays out of making economic decisions

2- Prices determined by Supply and Demand

3- Private owners receive profits

CAUSES OF THE

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Henry Clay proposed that the Federal Government spend revenue to construct roads, canals, railroads & bridges.

The American System

Made it cheaper & easier to move people & goods to distant markets

Encouraged National Unity

Opened larger markets for our products

Stopped all trade to Europe

The Embargo Act of 1807

Caused America to rely on itself to manufacture our own goods

Stopped all trade to Europe

The War of 1812

Showed that America was a powerful nation

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TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS