a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1800s
industrial revolution
100
the biggest cash crop
cotton
100
workers refused to work until employers meet their demands
strikes
100
stories with a moral
floktaless
100
disgusied as a farmer, a skilled British mechanic, immigrated to the united states after carefully memorizing the textile mill machines
Samuel Slater
200
the tools uses to produce items or to do work
technology
200
a machine that removes seeds form short-saple cotton
cotton gin
200
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 clothes.
the Lowell System
200
emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music
spirituals
200
economy based of slavery
the south
300
parts of a machine that are identical
interchangeable parts
300
cotton production in 1791
two million
300
Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
Rhode Island system
300
the most revolt in the country occurred in 1831
Nat Turner's Rebellion
300
the wealthiest members of this society where planters
the southern society
400
came up with the idea of interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
400
owners of small farms
yeomen
400
invented the Lowell System
Francis Cabot Lowell
400
a slave from Southampton Country, Virginia that believed that God told him to end slavery
Nat Turner
400
region that advertised to hire entire families to work in the mills under the Rhode Island system
The North
500
an englishman that invented a large spinning wheel called a water frame
Richard Arkwhight
500
invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
500
founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform
Sarah G. Bagley
500
name the state Nat Turner was from
Virginia
500
region that used the lowell system to attack young women to work in the mill by offering room and bore along with their jobs