USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Factories and the machines that they housed began to produce items faster and cheaper than could be made by hand. As the supply of various items rose, their cost to the consumer declined (see supply and demand).

Detailed explanation-2: -The domestic system was no longer able to provide enough goods to meet the demand. In the late 1700s, machines were invented that allowed textiles to be made faster and in larger quan-tities. These new machines replaced hand weavers. The new machines were too large to be housed in one’s home.

Detailed explanation-3: -The factory system replaced the domestic system, in which individual workers used hand tools or simple machinery to fabricate goods in their own homes or in workshops attached to their homes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Its primary innovation was to combine machinery and other new technologies with the division of labor in order to lower production costs and increase efficiency. Due to the rise of the factory system, production began leaving households and artisan shops to be located in plants and factories instead.

Detailed explanation-5: -Factory workers typically lived within walking distance to work until the introduction of bicycles and electric street railways in the 1890s. Thus the factory system was partly responsible for the rise of urban living, as large numbers of workers migrated into the towns in search of employment in the factories.