The Industrial Revolution in America
Time of rapid growth in machines and manufacturing.
What is Industrial Revolution?
Characteristics of the Lowell System.
What are hiring young, unmarried women from local farms?
What the Transportation Revolution did.
What is transported goods, people, and information farther and faster?
Effect the telegraph had on communication in the U.S.
developed mills featuring power looms that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill
Richard Arkwright
Making products made with pieces that are made exactly the same.
What are interchangeable parts?
Working conditions of most factory workers.
What are low wages, long hours, dust in the air causing cough.
Supreme Court case that ruled federal law overrules state law.
What is Gibbons versus Ogden?
Ways new inventions changed daily lives of Americans.
What are people could buy and sell goods rather than make them.
fought to obtain a 10-hour workday for employees of private businesses
Sarah Bagely
Why Eli Whitney's interchangeable parts increased the speed of manufacturing.
What is products could be assembled much faster.
Reason labor reformers were successful improving labor conditions.
What is some states passed laws for 10 hour work day.
Effect railroads had on cities.
What is cities grew and trains brought new residents and raw materials.
Why John Deere invented the steel plow.
What is his friends in Illinois had trouble with an iron plow?
unsuccessfully sued to limit New York’s waterway rights
Aaron Ogden
How did technological developments during the Industrial Revolution enable people to build factories almost anywhere?
The shift to steam power meant factories no lon?ger had to be built near streams, rivers, or waterfalls.
Two reasons young women would have wanted to go and work in the Lowell Mills.
They earn more money in factory jobs versus domestic jobs.
Girls were encouraged to take classes and form women's groups.
Two effects of the Transportation Revolution on the United States.
What is created a boom in business across the country due to reduced shipping times and costs?
What is goods, people and information were able to travel rapidly and efficiently across the country?
What is factories could be built closer to cities and this drew immigrants and people from rural areas.
developed the strategy of hiring families and dividing work into simple tasks, known as the Rhode Island system
Samuel Slater
In the 1870s, the demand for coal increased as the demand for steel grew because
coal was used in furnaces for steel production.
What many factory workers formed.
What was the outcome they wanted to receive.
One method people used to see that their demands were met.
One leader who led these rights.
The ultimate goal of these groups.
Labor unions.
Higher wages, better working conditions.
They may go on strike.
Sarah G. Bagley was the millworker.
They wanted a 10-hour work day.
at challenges did engineers and mechanics face while building railroads?
The railroads had to pass over mountains and rivers
The effect of new inventions on agriculture in the United States in the 1830's.
What is farmers had larger harvests and the ability to farm more land?
built the small but powerful locomotive Tom Thumb in 1830
Peter Cooper