TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 A Nation Transformed CHAPTER 2 Spinning Cotton IN THEIR OWN WORDS Camella Teoli CHAPTER 3 Breaker Boys CHAPTER 4 Working from Home IN THEIR OWN WORDS Sadie Frowne CHAPTER 5 On the Street CHAPTER 6 Orphan Trains CHAPTER 7 Let Them Play and Learn Focus on Children in the Industrial Revolution Glossary To Learn More Index
CHAPTER 1 A NATION TRANSFORMED In the second half of the 1700s the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain Before the revolution most manufacturing happened in families homes But now large machines in factories could produce goods faster and in greater amounts This process was known as industrialization Toward the end of the 1700s the Industrial Revolution arrived in the United States The first successful US cotton factory was built in Pawtucket Rhode Island in 1793 5
