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Chapter 12 vocab
Industrial Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | This is a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid 1700s. |
| Textiles | Cloth items |
| Eli Whitney | An inventor that proposed mass production and interchangeable parts. |
| Technology | The tools used to produce items or do work. |
| Interchangeable Parts | Parts of a machine that are identical. |
| Mass Production | The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods. |
| Rhode Island System | This was Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks. |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | A busninessman from New England that changed the textile industry in the US. |
| Lowell System | This is the use of water powered mills that employed young unmarried women in the 1800s. |
| Trade Unions | This is a workers' organization that tries to improve working conditions. |
| Strikes | This is the refusal of workers to perform their jobs until employers meet their demands. |
| Labor Reform | A movement to change working conditions |
| Transportation Revolution | This is the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportaion. |
| Robert Fulton | This man was an American engineer and inventor, he built the first full-sized steamboat - The Clermont |
| Gibbons V Ogden | This is a supreme court ruling that reinforced the federal government's authority over the states. |
| Telegraph | This is a machine perfected by Samuel E D Morse to send messages across long distances. |
| Morse Code | This is a system developed by Alfred Lewis Vail for the telegraph using combinations of dots and dashes to represent the alphabet. |
| Cyrus McCormick | This is an American inventor and industrialist who invented the reaper and harvesting machine. |