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= America's Monumental Change: The Life, Inventors, and Inventions = = of the Industrial Revolution = = Objectives: = = 1. Compare life from before the Industrial Revolution to life after the Industrial Revolution = = 2. List inventions and their inventors = = 3. Assess their impact on the Industrial Revolution. =

Answer to Objectives:
====1.) Life before the Industrial Revolution was very slow moving and not many inventions were around to help citizens advance in society. Mail and word of mouth were the only ways of communication and the spinning of cloth into thread took many weeks, and it was also dangerous for the women and men who were working the hand-powered looms. ==== ====2.) -The Spinning Jenny; inventor-James Hargreaves; impact- it had the smallest impact on the Industrial Revolution and American citizens, even though it did lead to the Water Frame. It was still a slow-moving process for spinning thread into cotton. But, it was easily accessed for those in homes who wanted to produce their own clothes. It also made spinning cotton easier, yet it was still a slow and dangerous process. ==== ====-The Water Frame; inventor-Richard Arkwright; impact- It was one of the inventions that had the biggest impact on America. The Frame was easily accessed in the northern United States, where the textile mills and factories were being built. This was where the cotton industry was making a monumental stride in the right direction. Also, it made cotton spinning much easier than before by using water-powered machines instead of human-powered machines. ==== ====-Factories and Textile Mills in America; inventor-there was no real inventor, but Samuel Slater and Richard Arkwright did influence the building of these in America; impact- It was quite an impact in the north, to the extent that cotton and thread were produced faster and there was easily accessibility to those needing jobs as well as those who worked in the factories as those who spun cotton into thread. ==== ====-Telegraph; inventor-Samuel F.B. Morse; impact-The telegraph greatly impacted how life functioned in America in the terms of communication. It was easily accessed to those living and working in a business-populated area because railroad tracks were the basis of telegraph lines, which were put up in areas with businesses. Also, it made communication between people so much easier within towns, cities, communities, and the overall country. ==== ====-The Cotton Gin; inventor-Eli Whitney; impact-It made a big impact upon those in the south, especially those picking cotton for plantation owners. It's accessibility was easy for cotton planation owners who owned the planation as well as slaves who were completing the task of picking cotton. It made the task of picking and furthermore separating cotton seeds from the actual cotton easier. ====

New Ideas of the Revolution:
====-Mass Production; inventor (the one who influenced it)-Francis Cabot Lowell; impact-It was an idea that influenced the demand as well as the faster production of cotton. ==== ====-Interchangeable Parts; inventor (the one who thought of it)-Eli Whitney; impact- It was an idea sprung upon after the idea of mass production. It made exchanging and replacing object parts easier than what it used to be. ==== ====Here's a [|website link] to support the objective answer ====

Here are some pictures that feature inventions of the Industrial Revolution that large impacts on life.


Here's a [|link] to my citations for this wiki page.