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• The U.S. Mexican War (1846-1848) - This site provides dialogue, timelines, discussions, and resources.
• The History Guy: The Mexican American War - The site delves into the politics of the war and the effects it has had on today's news.
• Historical Survey--A Shared Experience - The site offeres a synopsis of what went on and includes pictures to illustrate the effects.
• Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - The museum analyzes the war through this site.
• Emawar - The painting depics the fighters of the war.
• President Polk - This is a picture of President Polk who dictated the direction of the war on the part of the U.S.

• American Memory - Working in Paterson - Working in Paterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting presents 470 interview excerpts and 3882 photographs from the Working in Paterson Folklife Project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The four-month study of occupational culture in Paterson, New Jersey, was conducted in 1994. Paterson is considered to be the cradle of the Industrial Revolution in America.
• Morse, Samuel F.B. - Spirit of Invention - Just as Johann Gutenberg (1396-1468) personifies the process where transmutable text set the stage for vast changes from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, we can find an interesting personality who emerged from the industrial revolution to help usher in the information revolution. In the 1840s, at least on a metaphorical level, we can see the confluence of art, photography and communications in a single person
• Modern History Sourcebook: - Initial advances in the manufacture of textiles used older methods of power provision - water-mills and so forth. It was the application of steam power which accelerated the centralization of textile production in factories.
• Capital and Labour - The Invention of the Steam-Engine : Watt's Early Inventions - JAMES WATT, the grandson of a teacher of mathematics, and the son of a shipwright merchant of Greenock, was born in 1736. On the advice of a Glasgow Professor, he was sent to London in 1755 to be apprenticed to a mathematical instrument maker.1 However, on arriving in London he discovered that the seven years' apprenticeship rule of the gild was largely insisted upon, and it was only with difficulty that he could find any one who would take him for so short a time as a year This was finally arranged, and a Mr. Morgan was to give him a year's instruction for twenty guineas.
• The Industrial Revolution Reference: Inventors - This site has links to various inventors
• Industrial Revolution - Who was Who - WHO WAS WHO: Biographies of everyone who was anyone BIOGRAPHIES NOT everyone in 18th-century and 19th-century England was involved in industry. This section brings you potted biographies of many people from all walks of life who made names for themselves.

• Women at Work: Manual Labor - factory buildings that developed during the Industrial Revolutionfactory buildings that developed during the Industrial Revolution... Homespun produced by women helped
• Women and Children during the Industrial Revolution - Life for Women and Children during the Industrial Revolution
• The Plight of Women's Work in the Early - The Industrial Revolution in part was fueled by the economic necessity of many women, single and married, to find waged work outside their home. Women mostly found jobs in domestic service, textile factories, and piece work shops.
• Significant Works in Twentieth-Century Economic History - ...in this sense the industrial revolution marked a real advance, since it led ... to the level of their own subsistence because women and children earned their ...

• Industrial Revolution #1 - Industrial Revolution, term usually applied to the social and economic changes that mark the transition from a stable agricultural and commercial society to a modern industrial society relying on complex machinery rather than tools. It is used historically to refer primarily to the period in British history from the middle of the 18th cent. to the middle of the 19th cent.
• The Two Countries That Invented The Industrial Revolution - Why do the British and American approaches to machinery differ? A short history of machine tools explains why. No two countries were more responsible for the Industrial Revolution than America and England.
• Industrial Revolution #2 - This site contains clip art of the Industrial Revolution.
• A trip to the past - The Industrial Revolution was a time of dramatic change, from hand tools and handmade items, to products which were msass produced by work saving machines.
• Overview of the Industrial Revolution - In the last part of the 18th century, a new revolution gripped the world that we were not ready for. This revolution was not a political one, but it would lead to many implications later in its existance. Neither was this a social or cultural revolution. This revolution was an economic one.
• American IR - The American Industrial Revolution had its roots along 46 miles (74.1 km) of river and canals running from Worcester, MA, to Providence, RI, through the Blackstone Valley where the mills (including Slater Mill), villages and associated transportation networks tell the industrialization story.
• Long Term Effects of the Industrial Revolution -The Industrial Revolution has changed the world in a way we have never before seen. At the time, the negative effects far outweighed the positive; however, as many investors and factory owners believed, the hardships of that time allowed for great benefits in the big picture. Workers eventually began to receive benefits, countries became stronger economically, new inventions have changed the way we live for the better and work became far more efficient than in the preindustrialized societies.

Museums,Literature, Links

• Cybersleth Kids - Industrial Revolution - This site contain links students can look up to find more information on specific topics.
• Industrial Revolution #3 - The major inventions of the Industrial Revolution - American - British and European - the Industrial Revolution defined was the widespread replacement of manual labor by new inventions or machinery.
• Kidinfo.com - Industrial Revolution - Kid information - References and Resources
• Ironbridge Gorge Museum - Shropshire - 'the images and objects of an industrial revolution' Discover the wonderful and diverse heritage held in the MuseumÆs collections...
• National Canal Museum - Come discover America's canal heritage at the National Canal Museum. Take a journey back in time to the early 1800's and experience what the world was like before railroads, highways and airplanes.
• Age of Industry - Enter the Machines, with all their blessings and curses. Great Britain was the birth place of the Industrial Revolution because the economic and political conditions were ideal. They had the....
• Boott Cotton Mills--Supplementary Resources - The site features Lowell National Historical Park as an example of how the Industrial Revolution produced a new way of life for American women. ...
• The American Industrial Revolution - From the clothes we wear to the cars we drive, industry has shaped our way of life and is often taken for granted. Today's modern America evolved the way it did because of Industrialization.
• The Industrial Revolution in America, 1890-1910 - Sites and links to many factors dealing with the Industrial Revolution
• The History of Cranston Print Works - Welcome to Cranston Print Works Company... the oldest textile printing company in the United States! In many ways, the history of Cranston is the history of the American Industrial Revolution... Our roots go back to 1824 and to the establishment of a tiny cotton printing plant founded by a Rhode Island governor, William Sprague.

Labor

• Detroit News - When Cooking Was a Workout - When cooking was a workout A folk art expert talks about some of the tools our foremothers used when feeding a family was a full-time job powered by muscle and ingenuity
• May Day or Radical Workers Day? - The fact that workers had it tough in the early years of the American Industrial Revolution is widely taught in schools. Sixteen-hour workdays in dangerous conditions, child labor, exploitation, and accidents were common; then, magically, everything became better in a civilized, twentieth-century way.
• Fabrics for boys' clothing -- cotton textiles - Cotton is the most widely used natural fiber in the manufacture of clothing. It has a number of qualities making it ideal for making textiles and clothing.
• The Industrial Revolution Working Class Poverty or Prosperity - Since it began approximately two centuries ago, the industrial revolution has captured the minds of an endless number of historians and economists. An era of relatively laissez faire economics, the period between 1760-1850 is for many academics the key to unlocking the secrets of economic growth, technological change, and economic development.