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Ch12
Industrial revolution
Question: What was Industrial revolution
Answer: A period of rapid growth in using machines
Question: What did Richard Arkwright did
Answer: He invented the water frame
Question: Why were there fewer factories on the United States
Answer: Because people preferred to own a farm than to work on a factory
Question: What did Americans realized during the war
Answer: How dependent they were on imports
Question: How did mills got to the us
Answer: Through Slater, an England skilled merchant who memorized the designs of the mill and traveled to the us disguised of a farmer
Changes on working life
Question: Why many mill owner on the us couldn't find enough to people to work on their factories?
Answer: Because other jobs were available
Question: What were the 2 hiring systems
Answer: Rhode Island systemLowell system
Question: What were strikers
Answer: Workers on strike refused to work until employers meet their demands
Question: How much did Lowell girls received per week
Answer: From $2 to $4
Question: Explain the Rhode Island system
Answer: Men with growing families were wantedHousing for the whole family
Credits at the company store
Easy job for children
The transportation revolution
Question: What was the transportation revolution
Answer: A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel
Question: Which were the 2 new ways of transportation
Answer: Steamboats and steam powered trains
Question: What did the new methods of transportation enable
Answer: Goods people and information to travel rapidly and efficiently across the United States
Question: What did the clermont did on 1807
Answer: Traveled against the current up the Hudson River without trouble
Question: What did Peter cooper during the 1830s
Answer: Build a small but powerful locomotive: rom thump
More technology advances
Question: Who perfectioned the telegraph
Answer: Samuel F B Morse
Question: What was the telegraph
Answer: a device that send pulse of electric current through wires
Question: What system people used to communicate through the telegraph
Answer: Morse code
Question: Who designed the steel plow
Answer: John Deere
Question: Who first invented the sewing machine
Answer: Elias Howe
vocabs
Question: define gibbons v. odgen
Answer: which reached the supreme court 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
Question: define clermont
Answer: the first full sized commercial steamboat
Question: strikes
Answer: workers on strike refused to work until employers meet their demands
Question: define interchangeable parts
Answer: parts of a machine that are identical
Question: define mass production
Answer: the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods