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Changes from Revolution
100
Identical, machine-made parts for a tool or instrument
What is interchangeable parts
100
A Quaker merchant who wanted to build a spinning mill
Wo is Moses Brown
100
A big wheel that is spun by water moving it
What is spinning mill
100
Name the main way goods were produced before the 1800's
What is they were produced by farming using hand
100
The item that Whitney created the idea of Interchangeable parts with
What are guns
200
machine developed in the 1760's that could spin several threads at once
What is spinning jenny
200
A man who moved from England to the US because he wanted a reward from the US by giving them Britain's plans from the factories
Who is Samuel Slater
200
How did Interchangeable parts help the Industrial Revolution? (two reasons)
What is by saving time and money
200
How were small children useful in factories?
What is they could squeeze around large machines to change spindles
200
Things were popping up everywhere, which is called urbanization
What are cities
300
a person who invests in a business in order to make a profit
What is capitalists
300
Young girls from farms who were hired to work in factories. After a few years they usually returned home to marry.
Who are "Lowell girls"
300
Partners of Lowell girls, built textile factory in Waltham, Massachusetts
Who were Boston Associates
300
People in rural areas depended on these for basic needs
What are door-to-door peddlers
300
Describe factory conditions in US compared to Europe's
What were, they were better but later grew worse when competition rose
400
method of producing goods that brought workers and machinery together in one place
What is factory system
400
A long, slow process which completely changed the way goods were produced
What is Industrial Revolution
400
James Hargreaves invented the...
Who invented the spinning jenny?
400
People worked....hours....days a week
What is 12 hours, 6 days a week
400
Name a problem from cities popping up everywhere
What is when it rained dirt roads turned into mud holes, cities had no sewers, and people threw there garbage in the street
500
movement of population from farms to cities
What is urbanization
500
The man who made interchangeable parts
Who is Eli Whitney
500
Slater opened a spinning mill in Rhode Island with...
Who is Moses Brown
500
Describe work for the Lowell girls
What is very tedious and hard
500
The causes of Factory systems spreading
What are the effects of British ideas of a spinning mill and powerloom reach the US