Vocabulary Words
Clermont
First full sized commercial
One way that the railroad affects daily life
reduced travel time
Who is Samuel Morse?
Invented the telegraph/morse code
Name one invention that improved the daily life
Safety pins
Why did workers form unions?
To increase wages and improve working conditions
Trade Unions
Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
Why did young women want to work in the Lowell Mills?`
ability to make their own money
Who was Robert Fulton
Produced the first full sized commercial steamboat Clermont
What forms of transportation were improved or invented at this time
Steamboats and Steam Powered trains
What was the first industry to begin to use machines to manufacture goods?
Textile Industry
Telegraph
A device that could send information over the wires across great distances
War of 1812
Who invented interchangeable parts that led to to Mass Production
Eli Whitney
What two inventions improved agriculture?
Steel plow and mechanical reaper
What effect did new inventions have on agriculture in the United States?
larger harvest, farm more land
Interchangeable Parts
parts of machine that are identical
Eli Whitney was mass-producing guns for the U.S government using what machinery?
Water powered
The sewing machine was first invented by
Elias Howe
John Deere invented what
steel plow
Textile mills located in a factory town in Massachusetts that employed farm girls to come live in company owned boardinghouses
Lowell Mills
Transportation Revolution
period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
How did labor unions improve working conditions in the mid-1800s?
some states passed 10 hour workday laws
Cyrus McCormick developed what
the new harvesting machine, the mechanical reaper
The mechanical reaper was invented by who
Cyrus McCormick
How does Morse Code Work?
A system of dots and dashes or long and short clicks is used to represent the different letter in the alphabet