Industrial Revolution
What are Textiles
Cloth items
What is the Rhode Island System
The strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
Who invented the steamboat?
Robert Fulton
What country did the Industrial Revolution begin in?
Britain
Mass Production
The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
What did Richard Arkwright invent?
Large spinning machine called a water frame
What new group of people began working in factories
Women
What was the final decision in the court case Gibbons v. Ogden
John Marshall reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between states by ending monopolistic control over waterways.
*This resulted in even greater trade and competition in the shipping industry*
What product was first made using machines in factories?
Textiles
Lowell system
System based on water powered textile mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms.
Define the industrial revolution
A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and that production began in the mid 1700s.
Did the court and police support striking employees or companies
Companies
What land vehicle is comparative to the steamboat
Steam Train
What innovation increased the transportation of goods and people?
Steam Engines
Strikes
Staged protests by labor unions
Which region of the united states was affected by the industrial revolution the most?
The North
Why were craftspeople threatened by factories
Factories were able to make low-priced products that the craftspeople could not compete with
What replaced wood as the fuel to steam trains and steamboats
Coal
Before the Industrial Revolution all products were created by
hand
Trade Unions
Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.
Which inventor/Investor came over from England to improve the U.S. Textile industry
Samuel Slater
Why would employers not want to hire union workers
They believed the higher cost of union workers prevented competition from other manufacturers
What is one way the development of the railroad system grew the logging business.
- Logging industry expanded as growing cities needed wood for houses and furniture.
- The growth of the newspaper industry increased the demand for paper made from wood increased.
Which 2 natural resources were the backbone of the Industrial Revolution?
Coal and Iron
Transportation revolution
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation