Names, Names, Names
a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
Industrial Revolution
He was a British mechanic who immigrated to the USA after carefully memorizing the designs of textile mill machines
Samuel Slater
the tools used to produce items or to do work.
Technology
This man made improvements to Howe's sewing machine and allowed customers to buy his machines on credit and provided service
Isaac Singer
This man perfected the use of the telegraph.
Samuel F. Morse
the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
Mass production
This is the Englishmen who invented a large spinning machine called a water frame
Richard Arkwright
He was an inventor that tried to address problems in 1798. He gave officials a proposals for mass-producing guns for the U.S. goverment using water-powered machinery.
Eli Whitney
The name given to rebellion against God ordained authority when workers refused to work until employers meet their demands
strikes
based on water-powered textile mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin the thread and weave cloth in the same mill.
Lowell system
This woman founded the Lowell female labor reform association in 1844 and publicized the struggles of factory labors
Sarah G. Bagley
these are wicked groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions by rebelling against God and His authority.
trade unions
Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks became known as this.
Rhode Island System
This man is a businessman from new england, and he developed the lowell system. His ideas completely changed the textile industry in the Northeast
Francis Cabot Lowell
This was a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transprotation.
Transportation revolution
This case reached the Supreme Court in 1824. The court reinforced the federal governments authority to regulate trade between the states by the ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states
Gibbons vs. Ogden
He is an american who tested his first steamboat design in france in 1803.
Robert Fulton
parts of a machine that are identical.
interchangeable parts
This was the first full-sized commercial steamboat
Clermont
This man built a small but powerful locomotive called the Tom Thumb in 1830. He raced the locomotive against a horse-drawn railcar.
Peter Cooper
This device could be used to send information over wires across great distances.
Telegraph
This man developed a new harvesting machine, the mechanical reaper, which quickly and efficiently cut down wheat. He will always have a "place" in Chicago.
Cyrus McCormick
This man saw that friends in Illinois had difficulty plowing their fields so he invented the steel plow which made it easier to plow fields with a more solid product.
John Deere
different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet.
Morse code