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A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid 1700
Industrial revolution
In 1837 blacksmith developed a steel plow to help farmers plow the thick soil in the Midwest and by 1846 he was selling 1000 plows per year
John Deere
He Developed the Lowell system and created boarding houses for his workers to live and he also receive financial support from the Boston manufacturing company and opened his first mill in Waltham Massachusetts in 1814
Frances Cabot Lowell
Disguised as a farmer he was skilled British mechanic who immigrated to the United States after carefully memorizing the the designs of textile mill machines.
Samuel slater
These are parts of a machine that are identical and made machines easier to assemble and broken parts easier to replace.
Interchangenble parts
Groups of people who work together to try and improve pay and working conditions for all workers are know as what.
Trade union
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
Transportation revolution
In 1830 he built a small but powerful locomotive called the Tom Thumb .
Peter cooper
The first full-sized commercial steamboat in American was called what?
Clarmount
In 1798 this inventor gave officers a proposal for mass- producing guns for the United States government .He also came up with the idea of interchange parts.
Eli Whitney
He invented a large spinning machine called the water frame to help produce dozens of cotton threads at the same time.
Richard Ar.Kwright
In 1803 he tested his first steamboat design in France and several years later he tested the first full-sized commercial steamboat in America.
Robert Fulton
In 1832 he perfected the telegraph and by the time he died in 1872 he was famous across the United States
Samuel F.B Morse
Samuel slater's strategy of
hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks became know as what?
Rhode Island system
The refusal of workers to do their jobs until employers meet their demands.
Strikes
He made improvement on Elias Howe sewing machine and by 1860 his company was the world's largest maker of sewing machines.
Isaac Singer
This device could send information over wires across great distances.
Telegraph
The tools used to produce items or to do work.
Technology
In this Supreme Court case in 1824 the court reinforced The federal government's authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states
Gibson versus Ogden
The first important breakthrough of the industrial revolution took place in how cloth items were made or in the -------- mills
Textile
She founded the Lowell female labor reform association in 1844
Sarah G Bagley
The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods is known as what
Mass production
This system uses different combinations of dots and dashes that represented each letter of the alphabet to send and receive the words
Morse code
This system was based on waterpowered textile mills that employee young unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave in the same
Lowell system
He invented the mechanical reaper to help quickly and efficiently cut down wheat
Cyrus McCormick
The invention of the plow and the reaper helped the farming industry by
Enabling farmers to plant and harvest huge crops
How did technological developments during the Industrial Revolution enable people to build factories almost anywhere
The shift to steam power allowed them to build factories anywhere, not just by water/streams
Eli Whitney's idea of interchangeable parts resulted in
The mass production of goods
The invention of John Deere and Cyrus McCormick
Helped increase agriculture production
The earliest important evidence of the industrial revolution in America was found in
The way cotton was processed for market
The first machines of the Industrial Revolution were powered by
Water
The transportation revolution of the mid-1800s had all of the following affects except
Limiting the federal government's ability to control trade
Companies built their factories closer to cities and transportation centers in the mid-1800s to
Stabilize shipping cost
In the mid-1800s companies began to mass-produce earlier inventions. What effect did this have on families?
They could buy items they couldn't afford in the past
Which statement best describes working conditions in mills in the 1800s
Some worker suffered from health problems chronic coughing
In the 1870s the demand for coal increased as the demand for steel grew because
Coal was used in furnaces for steel production
Textile manufacturers kept the cost of running a mill low by
Hiring children and paying them little
The transportation revolution can best be described as period of
Rapid growth in the speed and con of travel
The water frame revolutionized production of cloth
Harnessing the power of flowing water which sped up production
What change in technology allowed business owners to sell their goods in markets across the country
The growth of the railroad
What challenges did engineers and mechanics face while building railroad
Engineers did not have the necessary material to build railroad
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