New inventions
What system brought workers and machinery together
What is the factory system?
Who are people who invest money into a business to make a profit
Who are capitalist?
Who did American manufacturers benefit from?
Eli Whitney
What were the young women who worked in new mills called?
Lowell girls
The young women who worked on the Lowell mills
Who are the Lowell girls?
What allowed gunsmiths to not have to build each gun from scratch
What are Interchangeable parts?
What is it called to have a limited supply of resources
What is scarcity?
What did Eli Whitney invent?
Interchangeable parts
How young were most boys and girls when they started working in mills?
Seven years old
The man who British technological innovations or new technological innovations to the United States
who is Samuel Slater?
What machine made it easier to sew clothes instead of by hand
What is a sewing machine?
What is it called to have borrowed money
What is credit
What was interchangeable parts first used to make?
many firearms
Why did women like workin in mils?
They valued the economic freedom they had
The skilled American inventor who made interchangeable parts
Who is Eli Whitney?
What invention allowed farmers to not have to cut and gather wheat and other grains by hand
What is the reaper?
What is the movement of the population from rural areas to cites
What is urbanization?
What was Samuel Slater skilled at?
He was a skilled mechanic in a British textile mill
Who found a way to improve British textile mills?
Francis Cabot Lowell
who made the Telegraph
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
What invention made it possible to communicate quickly with distant friends and family
What is the telegraph?
Who are skilled workers
Who are artisans?
What did the British Blockade cut Americans off from?
Their supply of foreign goods
How did the company reassure parents who hesitated to let their daughters work in mills?
They built boardinghouses and made rules to protect young women
Who made the sewing machine
Who is Elias Howe