The Industrial Revolution in America
Time of rapid growth in machines and manufacturing.
What is Industrial Revolution?
Characteristics of the Lowell System.
What are hiring young, unmarried women from local farms?
What the Transportation Revolution did.
What is transported goods, people, and information farther and faster?
Effect the telegraph had on communication in the U.S.
Where most of the coal deposits were in the United States in the 1830's.
What is the midwest?
Making products made with pieces that are made exactly the same.
What are interchangeable parts?
Working conditions of most factory workers.
Supreme Court case that ruled federal law overrules state law.
What is Gibbons versus Ogden?
Ways new inventions changed daily lives of Americans.
What are people could buy and sell goods rather than make them.
Where most of the railroads were located in the United States in the 1830's.
What is the northeast?
Why Eli Whitney's interchangeable parts increased the speed of manufacturing.
What is products could be assembled much faster.
Reason labor reformers were successful improving labor conditions.
What is some states passed laws for 10 hour work day.
Effect railroads had on cities.
What is cities grew and trains brought new residents and raw materials.
Why John Deere invented the steel plow.
What is his friends in Illinois had trouble with an iron plow?
The amount of time Lowell girls got for their noon meal.
What is 45 minutes?
The Industrial Revolution started here.
The physical characteristics were perfect because.
What is New England?
Many swift moving rivers and streams provided a reliable supply of water.
Two reasons young women would have wanted to go and work in the Lowell Mills.
They earn more money in factory jobs versus domestic jobs.
Girls were encouraged to take classes and form women's groups.
Two effects of the Transportation Revolution on the United States.
What is created a boom in business across the country due to reduced shipping times and costs?
What is goods, people and information were able to travel rapidly and efficiently across the country?
What is factories could be built closer to cities and this drew immigrants and people from rural areas.
The event that first led to the widespread use of the telegraph.
Two reason America had s slow start in manufacturing prior to the start of the War of 1812.
What are lower British prices on manufacturing goods and American manufacturing was limited to cotton, flour, weapons, and iron.
What many factory workers formed.
What was the outcome they wanted to receive.
One method people used to see that their demands were met.
One leader who led these rights.
The ultimate goal of these groups.
Labor unions.
Higher wages, better working conditions.
They may go on strike.
Sarah G. Bagley was the millworker.
They wanted a 10-hour work day.
Five main impacts of the growth in railroads in America.
What are: coal replaced wood as a source of fuel as trains grew bigger, railroads helped create the coal industry, coal became the main fuel in homes and the emerging steel industry, railroads helped the lumber industry to grow--but this led to large-scale deforestation, railroads caused cities to grow?
The effect of new inventions on agriculture in the United States in the 1830's.
What is farmers had larger harvests and the ability to farm more land?
To solve his problem finding enough labor, Samuel Slater began hiring these.