The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
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A New Way of Cloth<br />
1700 -1920<br />
• A influx of cotton from the Americas due to the slave labor in<br />
the southern states.<br />
• As Great Britain needed more cotton, slavery became even<br />
more entrenched (economic reason that led to civil war)<br />
• Eli Whitney – Cotton Gin<br />
• Richard Arkwright – Spinning Frame – used to spin stronger,<br />
thinner thread<br />
• New Machines were far to big to remain in cottages and it led<br />
to factories – a building that housed industrial machines
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