Some workers suffered from health problems such as this due to unsafe conditions in the mills in the 1800s.
What is chronic cough?
100
This can best be described as a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
100
The invention of these two items helped the farming industry by enabling farmers to plant and harvest huge crop fields
What are the steel plow and the mechanical reaper?
100
He developed mils featuring power looms that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
100
He came up with the idea of interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
Companies built their factories closer to these areas in the mid-1800s to provide themselves with easier access to workers.
What are cities and transportation centers?
200
Railroads passing over these landforms were challenges engineers and mechanics faced while building railroads.
What are mountains and rivers?
200
This revolutionized production of cloth by harnessing the power of flowing water, which sped up production.
What is the water frame?
200
She fought to obtain a 10-hour workday for employees of private businesses.
Who is Sarah G. Bagley?
200
During this war, Americans began to buy the items they needed from American manufacturers instead of foreign suppliers.
What is the War of 1812?
300
In the mid-1800s companies began to use this method of creating a large amount of the same individual product so that families could buy items they could not afford in the past.
What is mass production?
300
In the 1870s, the demand for this mineral increased as the demand for steel grew because it was used in furnaces for steel production.
What is coal?
300
He improved the sewing machine.
Who is Isaac Singer?
300
He developed the strategy of hiring families and dividing work into simple tasks, known as the Rhode Island system.
Who is Samuel Slater?
300
Most of the early versions of these by union members were unsuccessful because the courts and the police did not take their side.
What is a strike?
400
Textile manufacturers kept the costs of running a mill low by hiring these people and paying them very little.
Who are children?
400
He was the designer of the first full-sized commercial steamboat, the Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
400
He developed a system known as Morse code.
Who is Alfred Lewis Vail?
400
He sued to limit New York's water way rights.
Who is Aaron Ogden?
400
Changes to manufacturing were needed in the mid-1700s because this was greater than the available supply of goods.
What is demand?
500
The shift to this meant factories no longer had to be built near streams, rivers, or waterfalls enabling people to build factories almost anywhere.
What is steam power?
500
He built the small but powerful locomotive Tom Thumb in 1830.
Who is Peter Cooper?
500
He developed the mechanical reaper, a harvesting machine, in 1831.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
500
He invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?
500
Skilled workers formed these groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.