Samuel Slater
He is known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution.”
who is Samuel Slater
These factories produced this type of product.
what is Textile or Cloth
The workers at Lowell Mills were mostly this demographic or group of people.
what is Young, unmarried women.
Workers went on strike to protest cuts in these
What are wages
Before factory jobs, most women worked in or around the ____.
What is the home/farm
Slater brought this type of technology from Britain to the U.S.
what is the Textile Mill
Mills were usually built next to this type of natural resource.
What is water (rivers, streams)
The Lowell Girls were recruited from this part of the U.S.
What is New England farms or Northern Farms
Another common complaint besides pay was about these working conditions.
What are long hours and unsafe working conditions.
The growth of factories led many families to move here.
What are cities.
He had to memorize these because it was illegal to export them from Britain.
what is the Textile Mill plans
The machines inside mills were mostly powered by this in the early 1800s.
what is Water Power
The Lowell Girls lived in these buildings near the factories.
What is a Boarding House
Strikes are also known by this other name.
What is known as protesting
The shift from hand tools at home to machine work in cities is part of this larger historical change.
What is the Industrial Revolution.
Slater’s first successful mill was located in this state.
what is Rhode Island
Textile mills used this raw material to make cloth.
what is Cotton
Mill girls often worked this many hours per day.
What is 12-14 hours.
The Lowell strikes were among the first in U.S. history led by this group.
Who are women
Women in mills often used their wages for this.
What is supporting their families or paying for education?
Slater’s system of factory work was often called the “____ System.”
what is the Rhode Island System
The invention of this device by Eli Whitney made cotton production faster.
what is The Cotton Gin
The Lowell Girls were an early example of women participating in this.
What is labor/workforce
These strikes were an early step toward the formation of these organizations.
Labor unions or "associations"
Women’s activism in the workplace helped inspire this larger movement.
What is the Women's Rights Movement.