| A | B |
|---|
| Industrial Revolution | a period of rapid growth in using machines |
| textiles | cloth items |
| Richard Arkwright | invented the water frame |
| Samuel Slater | started the first textile mill in the U.S. |
| technology | tools used to produce goods or do work |
| Eli Whitney | first to use the idea of interchangable parts |
| interchangeable parts | parts of a machine that are identical |
| mass production | efficient production of large number of identical goods |
| Rhode Island System | Slater's system of hiring families and dividing work into simple tasks |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | New England business man who developed the Lowell System |
| Lowell System | mills that employed young unmarried women |
| Trade Unions | groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions |
| strikes | when workers refuse to work until their demands are met |
| Sarah G. Bagley | Formed the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association |
| Transportation Revolution | rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel |
| Robert Fulton | invented the steamboat |
| Clermont | first full-sized commercial steamboat |
| Gibbons v Ogden | reinforced the federal government's ability to regulate trade between states |
| Peter Cooper | built a small but powerful locomotive called the Tom Thumb |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | perfected the telegraph |
| telegraph | device that sends information over a great distance using wires |
| Morse Code | dots and dashes that represent the letters of the alphabet |
| John Deere | developed the steel bladed plow |
| Cyrus McCormick | made the first mechanical reaper |
| Isaac Singer | made improvements on the sewing machine |
