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30 Cards in this Set
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industrial evolution |
a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid 1700's |
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textiles |
cloth items |
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richard arkwright |
invented a large spinning machine called a water frame. |
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samuel slater |
a skilled British mechanic immigrated to the United States after carefully memorizing the design of the textile machine |
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technology |
the tools used to produce items or to do work. |
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Eli Whitney |
tried to address some of these problems. Whitney gave officials a proposal for mass producing guns for the U.S. government using water powered machinery. |
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interchangeable parts |
parts of a machine that are identical |
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mass production |
the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods. |
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Rhode island system |
slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks became known as the Rhode Island system. |
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Francis Cabot Lowell |
a businessman from New, England developed a very different approach. |
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Lowell System |
was 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 cloth in the same mill |
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trade unions |
groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions |
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strikes |
workers on strike refuse to work until employers meet their demands. |
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Sarah G. Bagley |
founded the lowell female labor reform association in 1844 and publicized the stuggles of factory labor. |
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transportation revolution |
a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation |
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Robert Fulton |
Tested his first steam boat design in France. |
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Clermont |
The first full sized commercial steam boat was called the Clermont |
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Gibbons v. Ogden |
reached the supreme court in 1824 the court reinforced the federal governments authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states. |
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Peter Cooper |
built a small but powerful locomotive called the Tom Thumb. |
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Samuel F. B. Morse |
Perfected the telegraph |
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telegraph |
A device that could send information over wires across great distances |
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Morse Code |
different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet |
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John Deere |
designed the steel plow. by 1846 he was selling 1,000 a year |
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Cyrus McCormick |
developed a new harvesting machine the mechanical reaper which quickly and efficiently cut down wheat. |
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Isaac Singer |
Made improvements to Howe's sewing machine. |
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cotton gin |
a machine that removes seeds from short staple cotton |
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planters |
large scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves |
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cotton belt |
area of high cotton production |
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factors |
crop brokers |
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Tredegar Iron Works |
In Richmond, Virginia one of the most productive iron works in the antion |
