apushchapt12 Flashcards
workers in factories
poor young women
where are the factory town workers come from
rural town
why are they there
need money and escape from rural isolation
young men
become apprentices
patriarchical
men control everything
railroads
most remarkable of roads railroads and canals
canals led to
towns and cities
putting put system
division of labor
what region specialized in factories and way
New England and waterways
who copied british
samuel slater and lowell mills
Cheap labor
women and children
american system
interchangable parts
who used interchangable parts
1)whitney 2)Colt 3)singer
first strikes
women (lowell ma)
workers in factories become more regulated
bells and clocks
free labor
able to move from job to job
fewer childeren
no condoms; abstance
famous woman author
catherine beacher
henry david thoreau
questions market revolution transcendentalist prodigy or Emerson
why interchangable parts?
guns