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 * Pace of Change:**

Mechanization is when you apply new technology to something. The mechanization of cotton helped improve the rate that cotton was made at and made weaving a lot less time-consuming. People made new machines that pulled the cotton faster and then when they went to weave the cotton they had a constant line of cotton yarn feeding into the piece they were weaving. In the Industrial Revolution the mechanization of steel made it so that steel was easy to make and steel become cheaper.

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Innovation is when a device or process is invented through research and experiments. In the Industrial Revolution, there were many innovations that were invented to make cotton easier to make and to make it faster to make. One of these innovations was the "spinning jenny". this was made to spin multiple threads at once to make yarn. This yarn wasn't very strong so Richard Arkwright made the water frame. This innovation improved the spinning jenny by using a power source of water. This invention made yarn that was a lot stronger than yarn made by the spinning jenny. Resource:[| http://industrialrevolution.sea.ca/innovations.html]



Units Per Man Hour (assembly line) is how many products you make per hour. An assembly line is when workers stand in a line as a conveyor belt went passed them. The workers would then work on the product as it passed by them and the workers would work on the part of the product that they were good at. Before the assembly line factories made less money because all the workers would work on the product all at once but when the assembly line was created factories could make much more units per man hour. Henry Ford used the assembly line to assemble automobiles. The factory was able to make the famous Model T in 93 minutes. Resource: [] Go to Henry Ford in the link above.


 * Social Change:**

The Agricultural Revolution is the period in time when farming technology became more advanced. These tools made farming a lot easier. The tools increased the amount of crops made and farmers got a lot more money off of their crops. One of these new tools is the plow. The plow allowed a farmer to cut roots and make small ditches for seeds to be placed in. Before the plow the small ditches had to be made by hand for someone to come and sow the seeds in the small holes.

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Factory work was very common in the Industrial Revolution. Men, women, and children all worked in factories to help support their families. Factories started taking away income from women that spun cotton in their homes so they had to then work in factories to get some income to support their family. The conditions in the factories were very unsanitary and were dangerous to children due to all the new machinery. Children often worked in the cotton factories where pay was very low and their were plenty of jobs that kids could do. Resource: []

City Slum Dwelling is the type of housing that was the farthest thing from ideal. This kind of housing never had very good conditions. It was the housing that the less fortunate got. Some got the cellar and others got a small house packed with multiple families. For those that lived in the cellars, there was sewage that had seeped in through the walls when it had rained hard. Land was of so much value in the city, that many could not afford the land so they lived with many families.

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 * Economic Migration:**

Rural to Urban Migration is the period in the industrial Revolution when a lot of people started to migrate to the urban areas of the United States. More and more people moved to these areas looking for work with better income. There was a great amount of people that moved making the cities more and more populated. Others had no choice and had to move to these places due to crime that they had committed. The British would send criminal to the United States. Resource: [] Some pull factors of the industrial cities was that there were many new factories in the cities. Many can to the cities for these jobs hoping to get better income for their families. An industry that pulled a lot of workers to the cities was the cotton industry. This industry needed many workers and in the cotton factories would often hire children to earn money for their families. Resource: []

Some push factors of the Agricultural Revolution is that there was less land available to other farmers because almost all the land was used for farming. Another reason farmers did not like the agricultural revolution was that there were a lot less jobs available because many jobs were taken by new machines that were invented. Some of the jobs taken were in the field. Before the revolution the farms needed many people to make little holes to put seeds in the ground but because the plow was invented it only took a little a few seconds to make the hole. Resource: []