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26 Cards in this Set
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Organizations created by workers to improve working conditions
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Trade Union
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the efficient production in large numbers of identical goods with greater success
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Mass Production
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invented the steel blade that would cut through earth without getting stuck
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John Deere
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Slick, tall masted sailing ship invented in the 1840's
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Clipper Ship
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began working in an Arkwright textile mill as a young man. came to the Americas in hopes of making his fortune. In 1793, he and his partners built their first mill. Slater ran the mill and the machinery.
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Samuel Slater
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He was the inventor of a steam-powered boat called a steam boat
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Robert Fulton
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An odd-looking vessel -- a steam boat
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Clermont
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Designed the small, inexpensive machine known as a spinning jenny which was a hand powered spinning wheel which allowed a worker to make eight threads at the same time.
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James Hargreaves
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Built a water-powered loom based on a machine he had seen in Britain. This machine allowed him to make cloth instead of just thread. He also hired young unmarried women from local farms instead of hiring entire families.
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Francis C. Lowell
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cloth
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Textiles
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process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790's that called for making each vital part of a machine exactly the same
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Interchangeable parts
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The young unmarried girls that were hired by Francis Cabot Lowell to work in the mills
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Lowell Girls
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the refusal of work until employers met union demands
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Strike
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Tools used to produce goods or to do work
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technology
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System developed by Samuel Morse that represented each letter of the alphabet by a certain combination of dots and dashes; used with telegraph
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Morse Code
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Machine invented by Samuel Morse in 1837 that used a system of dots and dashes to send message long distances electronicalloy through a wire
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telegraph
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a rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation
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Transportation Revolution
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founded the Lowell female labor association in 1844 and worked 10 hours a day
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Sarah Bagley
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robert fulton was an artist by trade and had the idea of harnessing _______________ to run a ship
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Steam Power
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Period of rapid grwth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid 1700's
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Industrial Revolution
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developed a mechanical reaper to cut down wheat much more quickly and efficiently than the steel blade.
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Cyrus McCormick
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one of the earlier locamotives by Peter Cooper that lost a race against a horse-drawn railcar
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Tom Thumb
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The idea by Francis Lowell to hire young unmarried girls to work in the mills using the water-powered loom to weave and spin under 1 roof
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Lowell System
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System developed by Sarah Bagley for the Lowell girls who worked in the mills
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10-hour work day
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why did the industrial revolution occur?
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Because people began looking for ways to use machines to produce items more quickly and efficiently than by hand
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what factors slowed the growth of manufacturing in the u.s.
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1. few people would choose to work in a factory if they could own their own farm instead. 2. Factory workers were not willing to work for as low of wages in the u.s. as they were in britain. 3. The lower price of labor allowed Britain to produce goods less expensively making it hard for the u.s. to compete. 4. The inability to compete discouraged American investors from spending the money needed to build new factories and machinery
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