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G10 Ch 12 sec 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rhode Island system | Samuel Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | a New England businessman who built a loom that could both weave thread and spin cloth in the same mill |
| Lowell system | Lowell’s practice of hiring young unmarried women to work in his mills |
| trade unions | groups of skilled workers that tried to improve members’ pay and working conditions |
| strikes | union workers’ refusal to work until their employers met their demands |
| Sarah G- Bagley | a mill worker who founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association |