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Ch.12

Vocabulary

Question: What was a textile?
Answer: A textile is a piece of cloth item.

Question: What was Lowell system?
Answer: The Lowell system was based on water powered mills that employed young unmarried women.

Question: What was the Transportation Revolution?
Answer: The Transporation revolution was a period of growth in the speed and convenience of travel. 

Question: What were Interchaneable parts?
Answer: Interchangeable parts are parts of a machine that are identical.

Question: What was the Industrial revolution?


Answer: The Industrial revolution was a time of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and producing.

Section 1

Question: When did the U.S. start buying items in American manufactures instead of foreign suppliers? 
Answer: The U.S. started buying in American manufactures after the War of 1812.

Question: What was the result of Britain having scarce land that didn't benefit the U.S.?
Answer: The result was that factory workers in Britain were willing to work for low wages so they had lots of factory workers with technical skill that could produce large amounts of goods less expensively than American businesses could so it was hard for the Americans to keep up with the British.

Question: Who invented the Water Frame?
Answer: An Englishman called Richard Arkwright invented the Water Frame in 1769.

Question: Who was Samuel Slater?
Answer: Samuel Slater was a skilled British mechanic that migrated to the U.S. after memorizing the designs of textile mill machines.

Question: Wha was the proposal that Eli Whitney gave officials?
Answer: Eli Whitney proposed for mass producing guns for the U.S. using water powered machinery.

Section 2

Question: What did children do to help their families?
Answer: To help their families children had to work in factories. 

Question: Why was it hard to find workers that were willing to work in factories?
Answer: It was hard to find workers because there was many other jobs available at that time.

Question: Who created the Lowell system?
Answer: The one that invented the Lowell system was Francis Cabot Lowell.

Question: Why the workers didn't need the specific skill of crafts people to use the machines of the new mills?
Answer: They didn't them because now that there are machines, the machines do everything for the workers. 

Question: What things were included in Slatersville or what businesses?
Answer: The businesses that are in  Slatersville are tailors, butchers, dress makers, and other small workshops. 

Section 3

Question: What was the difference between American and British railroads?
Answer: The difference is that most of the railroads in Britain are in straight tracks and American railroads go around tight curves and go down on steep mountains. 

Question: What were the things or characteristics that the Steamboats could do?
Answer: The Steamboats could travel in rivers, it could move upriver or against the current with no trouble, and also didn't rely on wind power.

Question: What was the first full sized commercial Steamboat?
Answer: The first commercial Steamboat was the Clermont.

Question: What were the two new inventions that made goods and people travel faster?
Answer: The two new inventions are the Steamboat and the Steam powered trains.

Question: What was the boom across the country and what were its effects?
Answer: The Transportation revolution created the boom and reduced shipping time and cost.

Section 4

Question: Why were steam powered factories built near cities?
Answer: They were built near cities for workers to get there more easily and also allowed businesses to lower wages. 

Question: What did Isaac Singer do?
Answer: Isaac Singer improved Elias Howe's sewing machine and then a Singer's company was the worlds largest maker of sewing machines.

Question: What made life at home more convenient?
Answer: The additional useful items made life more convenient, items like matches and the safety pin.

Question: What allowed farmers to plant and harvest huge crop fields ?
Answer:  McCormicks mechanical reaper and Derre's steel plow that allowed farmers to harvest and plant huge crop fields.

Question: What is the difference between a water powered factory and a steam powered factory?
Answer: The difference is that water powered factories have to be built near rivers and steam powered factories could be built anywhere.