A | B |
James Hargreaves | Spinning Jenny |
Eli Whitney | interchangeable parts |
Samuel Slater | families worked in mills |
Eli Terry | mass production to build inexpensive clocks |
Francis Cabot Lowell | hired young girls to work in mills |
factory workers' day | 12 to 14 hours |
unions | groups set up to improve working conditions |
strike | a refusal to do work |
Martin Van Buren | limited federal workers to a 10 hour day |
overtime | working more hours than you are required to |
Robert Fulton | first steamboat |
telegraph | instrument using a series of dots and dashes for letters |
Samuel Morse | invented the Morse Code and telegraph |
Peter Cooper | brought railroads to the United States |
Sarah Bagley | started a union and publicized workers' struggles in the mill |
Europe | Industrial Revolution began here |
water and wind | first two types of power used in the Industrial Revolution |
clipper ships | tall, narrow sailing ships |