Vocab
An Englishman who invented a spinning machine called a water frame.
Richard Arkwright
What was the water frame used for and what did it increase the size of ?
the water frame could produce dozens of cotton threads at the same time. It lowered the cost of cotton cloth and increased the speed of textile production.
Slater´s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.
Rhode Island system
a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
Transportation Revolution
what is a telegraph
a device that could send information over wires across great distances
What are strikes from trade unions benefit for workers?
improve pay and working conditions.
a period of rapid growth in using manufacturing and production that began in the
Industrial Revolution
Watered powered textile mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill
Lowell system
the first full sized commercial steamboat
clermont
what is Morse code
different combinations of dots and dashes to create a word
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience.
Transportation Revolution
Why would young women want the work in the Mills.
to get better pay.
what did peter cooper build
small but powerful locomotive the tom thumb
who was Cyrus McCormick
invented harvesting machine
The first U.S Supreme Court ruling on commerce between states.
Gibbons v. Ogden
Who was Richard Arkwright?
invented a large spinning machine called a water frame.
what are trade unions?
groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.
What forms of transportation were improved?
Trains and steam boats
who was John Deere
made a steel plow
Cloth items are called?
Textiles
the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
mass production
what is a strike?
workers on strike refuse to work until employers meet their demands.
What benefits did the Transportation Revolution bring to trade life?
they could trade faster
who is Issac Singer
allowed his customers buy his products with credit