Industrial Revolution Vocabulary
What were the young women the company hired to work in the mills called?
The Lowell girls
Who invented the interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
Which was the main cause of the increase in the number and the size of cities in the United States
the increase of factories
What do you call a person who invests in a business to make a profit?
A Capitalist
Which invention did Samuel Slater invent?
The First American Mill
The development of interchangeable parts encouraged what?
the spread of the factory system
To set up and operate a spinning mill required large amounts of?
Capitial
Who invented the spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
Which was the main reason young women were drawn to working in the mills?
they wanted greater economic freedom
What do you call items like barrels, stocks, and trigger for a single musket or items for a particular piece missing from a gun?
Interchangeable Parts
Edmund Cartwright invented..
A loom powered by water
The factory system brought what together?
workers and machinery
What do you call the movement of the population from rural areas to cities?
Urbanization
Which factory turned iorn ore, which mined and smelted locally, into machines, tools, and guns?
The Pennsylvania factories
How did Americans find ideas for new technology?
they looked to modern science