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Chapter 12 Rodrigano

Section 1

Question: What was the invention of Englishman Richard Arkwright?
Answer: A spinning machine called a water frame.

Question: What was a greater demand by Great Britain in 1700s?
Answer: There was a greater demand for manufacturing goods.

Question: Who came to the U.S. with the designs of textile mill machines?
Answer: A mechanic immigrant called Samuel Slater 

Question:  When didSamuel slater create his own company?
Answer:  He created his company in 1798.

Question:  In what year did Samuel Slater died?
Answer:  He died in 1835.

Section 2

Question:  What was Slater’s problem in his mill?
Answer: He coulden’t get enough workers.

Question: What was the practice that Slater started?
Answer: He started to hire whole families.

Question:  What did Sarah G. Bagley do to improve working conditions for employees of private businesses? 
Answer: We made it so instead of working 14 hours they worked 10 hours.

Question:  What was the Lowell system based on?
Answer:  It was based on water powered textile mills that employed young unmarried woman from local farms.

Question:  How many people were unemployed because of the panic of 1837?
Answer:  There were more than 50,000 unemployed workers.

Section 3

Question: During what years was the US transformed by transportation revolution?
Answer:  It was during the 1800s.

Question: In what year did the Americans joined the Hudson to Missippi & made the Atlantic Ocean communicate with the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: It was in 1835.

Question:  With what two machines was that possible? 
Answer:  It was with the help of the steamboats and steampowered trains.

Question: Who were the ones that made the steamboats?
Answer: They were made by American & European inventors.

Question:  Who was the father of the steam powered trains?
Answer: He was Peter Cooper in 1830.

Section 4

Question:  With what studies did Samuel F.B. Morse perfected the telegraph?
Answer: With the studies of electricity and magnetism.

Question:  Who was the creator of the system known as Morse code?
Answer: Morse’s partner Alfred Lewis Vail was the developer.

Question:  Which year was the first transcontinental line? 
Answer:  It was in 1861.

Question: In what year did technology began transforming in farms and factories? 
Answer: It was in the year 1830.

Question: In what aspects did the Industrial Revolution make life easier? 
Answer: Sewing machines was one of the many improvements that they had another was the icebox, cooking stoves we’re also used and the credit expanded the use of home applications. 

Keywords

Question: What is Transportation revolution?
Answer: A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.

Question: Who was Robert Fulton?
Answer: The inventor of the steamboat.

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

Question: What was the Gibbons v. Ogden?
Answer: Which reached the Supreme Court reinforced the federal government’s authority to regulate trade between the state by ending monopolistic control over water ways in several states.

Question: Who was Peter Cooper?
Answer: The creator of the steam Train.