Chapter 11 history Flashcards
To promote their products inventors of labor savoring devices did all except
give stuff away for free
Why was the telegraph significant?
It enabled people to send news quickly coast to coast
American manufactures disadvantages against British
appealing to attract American workers
What did French Alexis de Toequelle say
contribution made it convenient
What was the effect of distribution throughout America?
technological advancements did not change the fact majority of industry based on New England
Small expensive machine
Spinning Jenny
Who invented water frame,lowered cost of cotton, and increased speed of production
Richard Arcwrite
Why were changes of manufacturing needed in 1700s
demanded increase
Period of rapid growth using machines
Industrial Revolution
Water frame revolutionized production of cloth by
shifting production from homes into mills
American textile mills were built in the north because
waterways and streams
“I am persuaded…mass producing muskets”
Whitney
Fought to reduce workday to 10 hours
Sarah G Bagley
Why was coal better than wood
produced more energy
Transportation of Revolution affected farmers to
Plow, cut trees, make more farmland in the Midwest
What was the center of businesses and everything
Urban Hubs
Gibbons vs Ogden was a case about
Interstate commerce
Supreme Court decided..
Gibbons license had priority over Ogden
Steamboats traveled..
well upstream
What drove the pace of railroad production
Faster transportation
“Praise being the engineer for traveling faster”
Charles
Patriot “to be independent for comforts of life we must…ourselves”
Thomas Jefferson
How did War of 1812 help American Manufacturing
encouraged Americans to buy domestic goods.South shipped to North
Introduced idea of interchangeable parts
Whitney
Why did people buy clocks
Factory hours and railroad schedules
Textile manufactures kept mill cost low by
Hiring kids
hired put whole families to work
Rhode Island System (slater)
Why were strikes of unions unsuccessful
Courts/police did not take their side
groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
Trade union
