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Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
Trade Unions
a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
Industrial Revolution
Cloth Items
Textiles
The tools used to produce items or to do work
Technology
Protest staged by labor unions
Strikes
A skilled British mechanic, immigrated to the United States after carefully memorizing the designs of textile mill machines
Samuel Slater
Parts of a machine that are identical
Interchangeable Parts
invented a large spinning machine called a water frame
Richard Arkwright
an entrepreneur from New England, developed the Lowell System
Francis Cabot Lowell
The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
Mass Production
was based on water-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
Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
Rhode Island system
Developed/ Invented the idea of using interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
Rhode Island System
A strong voice in the union movement, She wrote magazine articles and made speeches about working in the mills
Sarah G. Bagley
the first full-sized commercial steamboat
Clermont
built a small but powerful locomotive called the Tom Thumb. He raced the locomotive against a horsedrawn railcar
Peter Cooper
Tested his first steamboat design in France. Several years later, he tested the first full-sized commercial steamboat
Robert Fulton
a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
Transportation Revolution
a device that could send information over wires across great distances
Telegraph
In the Supreme Court in 1824, Chief Justice John Marshall reinforced the federal government’s authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over
Gibbons v. Ogden
developed a new harvesting machine, the mechanical reaper, which quickly and efficiently cut down wheat.
Cyrus McCormick
In 1837, His design for a steel plow was a success. By 1846 Deere was selling 1,000 plows per year
John Deere
different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
Morse Code
He made improvements to Howe's design of the sewing machine
Isaac Singer