New inventions
Key Vocabulary
America's First Factories
Daily Life in Factory Towns
Important People
100

What system brought workers and machinery together

What is the factory system?

100

Who are people who invest money into a business to make a profit 

Who are capitalist?

100

Who did American manufacturers benefit from?

Eli Whitney

100

What were the young women who worked in new mills called?

Lowell girls

100

The young women who worked on the Lowell mills

Who are the Lowell girls? 

200

What allowed gunsmiths to not have to build each gun from scratch

What are Interchangeable parts?

200

What is it called to have a limited supply of resources 

What is scarcity?

200

What did Eli Whitney invent?

Interchangeable parts

200

How young were most boys and girls when they started working in mills?

Seven years old

200

The man who British technological innovations or new technological innovations to the United States

who is Samuel Slater?

300

What machine made it easier to sew clothes instead of by hand

What is a sewing machine?

300

What is it called to have borrowed money

What is credit

300

What was interchangeable parts first used to make?

many firearms

300

Why did women like workin in mils?

They valued the economic freedom they had

300

The skilled American inventor who made interchangeable parts 

Who is Eli Whitney?

400

What invention allowed farmers to not have to cut and gather wheat and other grains by hand

What is the reaper?

400

What is the movement of the population from rural areas to cites

What is urbanization?

400

What was Samuel Slater skilled at?

He was a skilled mechanic in a British textile mill

400

Who found a way to improve British textile mills?

Francis Cabot Lowell

400

who made the Telegraph

Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?

500

What invention made it possible to communicate quickly with distant friends and family 

What is the telegraph?

500

Who are skilled workers

Who are artisans?

500

What did the British Blockade cut Americans off from?

Their supply of foreign goods

500

How did the company reassure parents who hesitated to let their daughters work in mills?

They built boardinghouses and made rules to protect young women

500

Who made the sewing machine

Who is Elias Howe