Question | Answer |
Industrial Revolution | A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production |
Textiles | Cloth items |
Technology | The tools used to produce items or to do work |
Eli Whitney | Invented interchangeable parts |
Interchangeable Parts | Parts of a machine that are identical |
Mass Production | The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods |
Manufacture | To make goods |
Assembly Line | Long conveyor belt |
Thomas Jefferson (quote on imports) | We must make our own things like farmers and their food |
Rhode Island System | A strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks |
Slatersville | Mill owners hired men with growing families |
The Lowell System | Based on water powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill |
Lowell Girls | Young mill girls |
Union | Collective bargaining to improve pay and working conditions |
Strike | Workers who refused to work until employers met their demands |
Sarah G. Bagley | Founded Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844 and publicized the struggles of factory labors |
Transportation Revolution | A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation |
The clermont | The first full sized commercial steamboat |
Gibbons v Ogden | Reached the SC and ended the monopolistic control over waterways in states |
New Fuel | Locomotives |
Samuel F. B. Morse | Invented the telegraph |
Telegraph | A device that could send information over wires across great distance |
Steam Power | Factories ran on steam |
John Deere | Made the steel plow |