This presentation was prepared for Deaf and hard of hearing students in MsAmyLC's social studies classes.

2. labor = work

7. Labor Day is an American holiday.
Why do Americans celebrate Labor Day?

8. Labor Day is an American holiday.
Why do Americans celebrate Labor Day?
1. Labor Day became a holiday after the
Industrial Revolution.

9. Labor Day is an American holiday.
Why do Americans celebrate Labor Day?
1. Labor Day became a holiday after the
Industrial Revolution.
2. Labor Day celebrates laborers who fought for
fair paychecks and safe workplaces.

10. Part I. The Industrial Revolution

13. For thousands of years,
men and women worked
in their homes and farms.

15. Beginning in the 1800s,
work changed. Men and
women worked in factories.

16. The change from working at home

17. The change from working at home to working in a
factory

18. The change from working at home to working in a
factory is called the Industrial Revolution.

19. The change from working at home to working in a
factory is called the Industrial Revolution.

20. The change from working at home to working in a
factory is called the Industrial Revolution.
CHANGE

21. The change from working at home to working in a
factory is called the Industrial Revolution.
CHANGE
Big businesses
and factories

23. For thousands of years, men
and women worked at home caring for
plants and animals for food.

24. For thousands of years, men
and women worked at home caring for
plants and animals for food. They cared for
plants and animals for making
clothes, too.

25. The first factories in America made clothes.

26. The first factories in America made clothes.

27. The first factories in America made clothes.
This factory was in
Lowell, Massachusetts.

28. Before, there were no stores.

29. Before, there were no stores.
People made their clothes.

30. Before, there were no stores.
People made their clothes.
If you needed a new shirt, you must wait many months.

31. For making clothes:

32. For making clothes: 1. cotton

33. For making clothes: 2. flax

34. For making clothes: 2. flax

35. For making clothes: 2. flax

36. For making clothes: 3. wool

37. For making clothes: 3. wool

38. For making clothes: 3. wool

39. For making clothes: 3. wool

40. How did people change wool, cotton or flax into clothes?

41. Spinning Wheel
How did people change wool, cotton or flax into clothes?

42. Spinning Wheel

43. Spinning Wheel

44. Spinning Wheel

45. Spinning Wheel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex1Atx1tQPk
(Go to 1:10)

50. Everyone had a spinning wheel
in their house.

51. Everyone had a spinning wheel
in their house. You spin the wheel with
foot power.

57. holds cotton or wool.

58. holds cotton or wool.

59. holds cotton or wool.
holds thread

60. holds cotton or wool.
holds thread

62. Ball of Yarn

63. How did people change balls of yarn into clothes?

67. Everybody did not have a loom.
Only some people had looms.
Weavers make cloth on looms.

72. 1. Plant the cotton.
2. Pick the cotton.
3. Clean the cotton.
4. Spin the cotton.
5. Dye the cotton.
6. Weave the cotton on a loom.
7. Sew a dress.
8. Get the dress

73. There are no stores.
Our mom makes everything.
I asked for this dress last year.
1. Plant the cotton.
2. Pick the cotton.
3. Clean the cotton.
4. Spin the cotton.
5. Dye the cotton.
6. Weave the cotton on a loom.
7. Sew a dress.
8. Get the dress

74. Inventor James Hargreaves

75. Inventor James Hargreaves

76. Inventor James Hargreaves

77. Inventor James Hargreaves

79. Inventor James Hargreaves
The First Machine for Making Cloth:
The Spinning Jenny

80. Inventor James Hargreaves
The First Machine for Making Cloth:
The Spinning Jenny
• James Hargreaves invented it in 1764.
•It was faster than the home spinning
wheel.
•It made 16 sixteen balls of thread.
•Powered by water, then steam engine.

82. America's first factories were big buildings making lots of yarn.

85. water-powered sawmill video
McCauley video

91. steam engine video
textile mill video

92. In my house, I could make one
or two balls of yarn every day.

93. Factories made things much faster.

94. Factories made things much faster.

95. Factory workers made hundreds of balls of yarn
every day.

96. Factory workers made lots of cloth on machine looms.

99. I cannot earn money
working at home.

100. I cannot earn money
working at home.
We must move to the city
and find jobs at the factory.