This person brought secrets of textile mill manufacturing machines and processes from Great Britain to the United States.
Who is Samuel Slater?
100
These are young men who worked for several years to learn a specific trade; they worked in mills at first but didn't like it because of the repetitive nature of the work.
What is a apprentice?
100
Two new forms of transportation that define the Transportation Revolution.
What is the 1. Steamboat 2. Steam Powered Train?
100
John Deere designed this in 1837; it replaced a less efficient piece of machinery.
What is the steel plow?
200
Englishman who invented a spinning machine called the WATER FRAME.
Who is Richard Arkwright?
200
The name of the strategy or system of hiring large families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.
What is the Rhode Island System?
200
This replaced wood as the main source of fuel for trains as they grew bigger.
What is coal?
200
This machine was developed by Elias Howe and improved by Isaac Sanger?
What is the sewing machine?
300
Period of rapid growth using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1800s.
What is the industrial revolution?
300
Groups of people in the same industry that would often times STRIKE to get improved pay and improved working conditions.
What are trade unions?
300
Name of the train that Peter Cooper raced against a horse with in 1830.
What is the "Tom Thumb"?
300
Person that developed the Morse Code; he was an associate of Samuel F.B. Morse.
Who is Alfred Lewis Vail?
400
According to your notes, this allowed and made it necessary for manufacturing in the United States to prosper and expand; happened in 1812.
What is the War of 1812?
400
The two things that Sarah G. Bagley fought for as head of the LOWELL FEMAL LABOR REFORM ASSOCIATION.
What is 1. investigation of working conditions by the state of Massachusetts 2. a 10-hour workday
400
Supreme Court case that reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between state (interstate commerce).
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
400
Cyrus McCormick developed this machine in 1831; it allowed farmers to efficiently harvest wheat.
What is the mechanical reaper?
500
3 things that are required to mass-produce goods according to Eli Whitney.
What is 1. Machine Tools 2. Division of Labor 3. Interchangeable parts?
500
Name of the magazine that the women that worked in the Lowell Mill wrote.
What is the Lowell Offering?
500
Tested the first full-sized commercial steamboat, which was called The Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
500
The TWO new innovations that Cyrus McCormick used to sell his invention.
What is 1. Advertising 2. letting people buy goods on Credit?