| A | B |
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| Why were changes needed in manufacturing? | Demand was greater than supply |
| Industrial Revolution | rapid growth when machines became necessary |
| How did the Water Frame change production of cloth? | Shifted production from homes to textile mills |
| Who was Richard Arkwright? | inventor of Water Frame |
| Who brought textile machines to US? | Samuel Slater |
| Why were textile mills built in N. not S.? | N. had rivers for power |
| Technology | tools used to produce items or do work |
| Eli Whitney | Idea of interchangeable parts |
| How did War of 1812 help manufacturing? | Tariffs (taxes) on foreign goods encouraged Am. to buy domestic goods |
| Thomas Jefferson | "to be independent for the comforts of life, we must (make) them ourselves |
| Texile mills did what to keep costs low? | hired childre, paid them little |
| Rhode Island System | hired families, divided work into simple tasks |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | More women became workers; earned more money, better jobs |
| Working conditions at Mills | health problems, unsafe |
| Trade Union | organized workers to improve pay and conditions |
| Sarah G. Bagley | fought for 10 hour workday |
| Early Strikes unsuccessful | courts and police supported factories, not the workers |
| Transportation Revolution | rapid growth in speed and convenience of travel |
| 2 New forms of transportation | steam-powered train, steamboat |
| Famous steamboat | Clermont |
| Famous Train | Tom Thumb |
| What did steamboat do to improve travel? | able to go upstream |
| Gibbons vs. Ogden court case | Interstate travel |
| Transportation Revolution helped farming... | Settlers plowed up prairies and cut down trees in Midwest |
| Coal | produced more energy |
| Telegraph | Samuel Morse first to connect two locations with it |
| Alfred Lewis Vail | invented the system of Morse Code |
| Industry mostly located | North, near rivers |
| Factories | near cities because gave easier access to workers |
| John Deere | steel plow |
| Cyrus McCormick | mechanical reaper |
| Isaac Singer | sewing machine |
| Plow and Reaper | allowed farmers to plant and harvest large crops |
| Eli Whitney | Interchangeable parts, mass production |
| Mass Production | lowered cost of items, people could now afford |
