Industrial revolution history mystery

Industrial Revolution: Choices and Consequences

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Standards• SS.8.A.4.7: Explain the causes, course, and consequences of New

England’s textile Industry. • SS.8.E.1.1: Examine motivating economic factors . . .scarcity,

supply/demand, opportunity costs (decision-making), incentives, profits, entrepreneurial aspects.

• SS.8.E.2.1 (also 5th grade) Analyze contributions of entrepreneurs, inventors, and other key individuals from various gender, social, ethnic . . .

• SS.8.A.4.5: Explain causes, course, and consequences of 19th century transportation on economy.

• SS.8.E.2.2: Assess role of Africans and other minority groups on economic development of the United States . . .

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Economic Questions: EQ’s• Scarcity: What was the scarcity problem?• Supply and demand: How did supply and/or demand affect

choices? • Opportunity costs: Next best choice you give up. What was the

opportunity cost of the decision? • Incentives: What were the incentives?• Profits: What was the profit? Who made the profit? How did profit

motivate choice?• Entrepreneurs and Inventors: Who sold things? Who invented

things? • Decision-making: What was the problem/decision? Were there

other choices? What were the consequences of the decision? What do you think they should have done, based on evidence?

Early Landmark Moment: Slater Mill

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http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/mills.html https://www.uml.edu/tsongas/bringing-history-home/timeline/ http://vermonthistory.org/educate/online-resources/an-era-of-great-change/religion-reform/new-england-mill-workers

Cotton Gin: Choices and Consequences

Problem: Eli Whitney learned that Southern planters were in desperate need of a way to make the growing of cotton profitable. Sticky green seeds were hard to pick out of cotton.Solution: Invent Cotton Gin.Patent: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 “promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”Problem: Whitney installs cotton gins on properties and charges farmers a fee. Farmers resented his gins and paying a large “tax” (2/5 of profit). So they made “new” inventions.Good and Bad consequences: Good- reduced hard labor of removing seeds, yield of raw cotton doubled. Demand fueled by other inventions (machines to weave, steamships to transport). Bad- Growth of slavery because it became profitable and increased planters’ demand for land and slave labor.

First telegraphic message: 24, May, 1844

Occupational Portrait of a Woman Working at a Sewing Machine. Circa 1853. Daguerreotypes

14 million immigrants

John D. Rockefeller: Standard Oil Trust

Alexander Graham BellMarch 10, 1876 the birth of the telephone and the death of the multiple telegraph. From dots and dashes to talking with electricity.

Thomas Alva Edison

https://www.loc.gov/item/00694187/ https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/industrial-us.html

Factory Jobs

Breaker Boys: Coal Mines