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Chpter13-Caruso
Study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mass Production | Making large numbers of identical goods by use of machinery |
| Reform | Improving conditions through Change |
| Steamboat | Built by Robert Fulton-the "Clermont" |
| 1. Faster, Cheaper 2. use year round | List two advantages the rail road had over the canals |
| Telegraph | Samuel Morse invented it in 1832 |
| Steel Plow | John Deere invented it |
| Samuel Slater | British Mechanic who built the first textile mill in the US |
| 1. Labor Shortage 2. Britain large labor force produce at a lower cost | List two reasons why manufacturing grew slowly in the US in the early 1800's |
| Strike | Refusal to work by organized labor |
| Interstate Commerce | Gibbons vs. Ogden was the US Supreme Court Judge case dealing with the power of Federal government to regulate |
| Morse | Code that was an alphabet of dots and dashes used in transmitting telegraph messages |
| Eli Whitney | manufacturer who developed the system of interchangeable parts |
| Rhode Island | System developed by Samuel Slater in which the entire families were hired to work in factories |
| Collective Bargaining | negotiations between and employer and union representatives to determine such things as wages, hours, and working conditions |
| Transportation Revolution | A period of Rapid growth in the speed and Convenience of transportation |
| Peter Cooper | Built 1st steam powered train in the US in 1830 |
| trade union | Organizations of workers which tries to improve pay and working conditions |
| Sarah Bagley | Early organized labor leader from Lowell, Massachusetts who fought for better working conditions for factory workers |
| Textiles | Cloth items |
| Industrial revolution | change from making of goods at home by hand to the making of goods using a machine |
| Richard Arkwright | invented the Water frame |
| Water power (rivers) | reason for the building of early mills in the North East |
| Technology | Tools used to produce goods at work |
| interchangeable parts | process developed by Eli Whitney in which parts are made exactly alike and are capable of being used in place of each other |
| Dowry | Money that a wife gives to her new husband at marriage |
| Francis Cabot Lodge | New England Business man who built factories which were staffed by young unmarried women |
| Issac Singer | businessman who mass produced sewing machines, making his company the largest sewing machine in the world |
| Cyrus McCormick | Invented the horse drawn mechanical reaper |
| Lowell System | System of using water powered looms staffed by young unmarried women |
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