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FMS 8th Ch 12
U.S. History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production. |
| Samuel Slater | A skilled British mechanic, immigrated to U.S. after carefully memorizing designs of textile machines. |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of interchangeable parts and credited for the cotton gin. Increased production. |
| Interchangeable Parts | Parts of machines that are identical--made machines easier to assemble and broken parts easier to replace. |
| Mass Production | The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods. |
| Transportation Revolution | A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation. |
| Gibbons vs. Ogden | A court case that reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between the states ending monopolies of waterways. |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | Perfected the telegraph. |
| Strikes | Protest where workers refuse to work until employers meet their demands. |
| Trade Unions | Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions. |
| Lowell System | Based on water powered textile mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms. |
| Rhode Isand System | Strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks. |