a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
what is the Industrial Revolution?
100
Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.
what is the Rhode Island System?
100
a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
what is a Transportation Revolution?
100
a device that could send information over wires across great distances.
what is a telegraph?
100
cloth items
what are textiles?
200
a British entrepreneur who invented a large spinning machine called a water frame.
who is Richard Arkwright?
200
an entrepreneur from New England who developed the Lowell system.
who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
200
the 2 new forms of transportation made in the transportation revolution
what are steamboats and steam-powered trains?
200
different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet.
what is morse code?
200
the tools used to produce items or to do work
what is technology?
300
a skilled British mechanic who immigrated to the United States after carefully memorizing the designs of textile mill machines.
who is Samuel Slater?
300
a system that was based on water powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. this system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill.
what is the Lowell system?
300
he made the first full-sized commercial steamboat called the Clermont.
who is Robert Fulton?
300
a blacksmith that invented the steel plow after seeing that people were having trouble breaking up the sod with iron plows.
who is John Deere?
300
the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
what is mass production?
400
an inventor who came up with the idea of interchangeable parts and mass produced muskets to show how effective this was.
who is Eli Whitney?
400
groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
what are trade unions?
400
a case that reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states. it also strengthened the idea that national interests should be placed ahead of regional concerns.
what is the case of Gibbons v. Ogden?
400
he invented a new harvesting machine, the mechanical reaper, which quickly cut down wheat. he also used new methods to encourage sales on him new product. these methods were advertising, demonstrations, and a repair and spare parts department.
who is Cyrus McCormick?
400
when labor unions staged protests
what are strikes?
500
the U.S. benefited from this because it momentarily stopped trade between them and Great Britain making Americans buy goods from american factories allowing manufacturing in the U.S. to expand.
how did the U.S. benefit from the War of 1812?
500
a millworker who was a strong voice in the union movement. she wrote magazine articles and made speeches about working in the mills. she also wrote about the hard labor in mills and fought for 10 hour work days. she was elected vice president of the New England Working Men's Association.
who is Sarah G. Bagley?
500
built the small but powerful locomotive called the Tom Thumb which almost beat a horse pulled carriage in a race.
who is Peter Cooper?
500
he improved the invention of the sewing machine and used some of McCormick's methods to sell his new sewing machines. by 1860 his company was the world's largest maker of sewing machines.
who is Isaac Singer?
500
a new fuel source that replaced the use of wood and the main source of power.