The Industrial Revolution

Began in England

1769

Otherwise…

After steam engine:

power, factories, production

19th Century

Clermont

19th Century - America

Industrialization and Urbanization

• Labor supply: women, children, immigrants• Water power (in Northeast)• New Technology: steam engine, spinning jenny, power

loom, sewing machine, cotton gin• Transportation: sailing ships, steamboats, steamships,

canals, railroads• Adequate food supply for urban areas thanks to rich

western farmlands and steel plow and mechanical reaper.

• Protective tariffs and embargoes