Chapter 12 Flashcards
In the early __ most people in the US and Europe made a living by __.
farming
The __ was invented and it made thread.
spinning wheel
The spinning jenny was invented and it would spin __ threads instead of one.
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__ invented a machine that lowered the cost of __, __ , and __.
cotton, cloth, raised production speed
__ invented a loom run by water power called the power loom.
Edmund Cartwright
In __ Samuel Slater came to the US and built a __.
1789, textile machine
Slater opened __ in __.
Slater’s Mill, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Most factories were built in the northeast for three reasons:
1) They had streams to supply water power
2) They had a large labor force
3) It was already a shipping center
In __ __ invented a sewing machine ran by a hand turned wheel.
1845, Elias Howe
__ improved it and began to market the sewing machine.
Isaac Singer
In __ Eli Whitney had the idea of manufacturing using __.
1798, interchangeable parts
__ are pieces that are exactly the same.
Interchangeable parts
Slater’s method became known as the __.
Rhode Island System
__ opened a textile factory in __.
Francis Lowell, Waltham, Massachusetts
The textile factory was the first factory that went from __ to __.
raw cotton, finished product
There were three disadvantages of working in factories:
1) You couldn’t keep the profits
2) They felt less pride in their work
3) The working conditions continued to get worse
men were paid __.
$5
women were paid __.
$2
Children were paid __.
$1
Three things they wanted to protect:
1) shorter hours
2) higher wages
3) education for children
__ was the first highly ranked women in the American labor movement.
Sarah Bagley
President Martin Van burin had given a __.
ten hour work day to many federal employees
__ tested the __ in the US.
Robert Fulton, Clermont
In the case of __ vs __ the court ruled that the federal shipping laws overruled state shipping laws.
Gibbons, Ogden
Peter Cooper built the __, a small but fast train.
Tom Thumb
__ developed the telegraph in __.
Samuel Morse, 1832
A short click is called a __.
dot
A long click is called a __.
dash
Morse’s assistant __ developed the morse code.
Alfred Vail
__ was a system of dots and dashes representing letters in the alphabet.
morse code
The first message was,
What hath God Wrought
__ began selling over 1000 steel plows by __.
John Deere 1846
Sirus McCormick developed a new harvesting machine called a __.
mechanical reaper
