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Chpt. 12 Sec. 1 SS
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Industrial Revolution | a period of extremly rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production |
| What was the first item manufactured in the Industrial Revolution | textiles |
| How did the British hope to maintain their advantage in the Industrial Revolution | the British Parliment had passed laws making it illegal for skilled mechanics or machine plans to leave Britian |
| Who brought this British concept to America | Samuel Slater |
| What is mass production | the making of large numbers of identical goods more effciently |
| Explain interchangeable parts | a system in which each particular part of a product would be made exactly the same |
| Who created this system | Eli Whitney |
| What was he manufacturing | muskets |
| Even though/American manufacturing started off slowly, what gave it a boost | When the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812 prevented U.S. consumers from buying British goods |
| What was the Rhode Island System | Slater's aproach of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks[jobs] to children |
| What was the Lowell System | the combination of employing young women and of spinning thread and weaving cloth in one mill |
| Explain trade unions | organizations of artisans in a particular trade to improve working conditions |
| What is a strike | the refusal to work until employers meet union demands |
| Who founded the Lowell Female Reform Association | Sarah Bagley |
| What did she go on to do | she became vice president of the New England Workingmen's Association |
| What was her main focus in this position | to limit the workday to 10 hours |
| What are lalor pools | the workers you have to choose from to fill the job |