What Was The Biggest Innovation Of The Industrial Revolution

HIS220 WEEK 2 LECTURE NOTES

• What was the first industry of the Industrial Revolution? TEXTILES
• What was the biggest innovation of the industrial revolution? ASSEMBLY LINE
• What group of immigrants were largely employed by the railroad? CHINESE
• What group of people provided many of the technical advances of the Industrial Revolutions? INVENTORS
• The role of woman in middle-class families changed from _____ _____ to _____ _____during the Industrial Revolution. INCOME PRODUCER, INCOME CONSUMER

THE ECONOMIC REVOLUJTION: 1820S to 1850S
 The Economic Revolution was the beginning of the Industrial Revolution: o Transportation: Canals and Railroads- First canal was the Erie Canal o Communication: Samual