Show:
Key Terms
People
Working in the Mills
Transportation Revolution
Inventions and Inventors
100
These are cloth items.
What are textiles?
100
He invented a large spinning machine called a water frame.
Who is Richard Arkwright?
100
This system targeted families to come and work in the mills.
What is the Rhode Island System?
100
These increased trade and profits because goods could be moved upriver easily.
What are steamboats?
100
A device that could send information over wires across great distances.
What is the telegraph?
200
The tools used to produce items or to do work.
What is technology?
200
He came up with the idea of interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
This system targeted young unmarried girls to work in textile mills.
What is the Lowell System?
200
These became popular in the United States in the 1830's after a race between the "Tom Thumb" and a horse-drawn railcar.
What are railroads? (Locomotives)
200
He improved on Elias Howe's invention of the sewing machine.
Who is Isaac Singer?
300
These are parts of a machine that are identical.
What are interchangeable parts?
300
He brought plans for water powered mills to the United States.
Who is Samuel Slater?
300
These are protests held by labor unions.
What are strikes?
300
He tested his first steamboat design in 1803.
Who is Robert Fulton?
300
A system that uses different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet.
What is Morse code?
400
A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700's.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
He developed a new harvesting machine, the mechanical reaper, which quickly and efficiently cut down wheat.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
400
These were groups that were formed to try and improve pay and working conditions.
What are trade unions?
400
He developed a small but powerful locomotive in 1830.
Who is Peter Cooper?
400
In 1832 he perfected the telegraph.
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
500
The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
What is mass production?
500
She founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844 and publicized the struggles of factory workers.
Who is Sarah G. Bailey?
500
He developed a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
500
It reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states.
What is Gibbons vs. Ogden?
500
He created a steel plow that was able to better plow thick soil.
Who is John Deere?