Chapter Eleven Section One Flashcards
Samuel slater
Proved the law that didn’t allow people to leave Britian afraid that they would share ideas of technology with the world, wrong. Left Britian and memorized ideas and sketches so he could get a job with a better salad here.
Moses brown
A Quaker merchant, wanted to make a spinning mill in Rhode Island
Francis Cabot Lowell
A Boston merchant, improved british textile mills, by making one machine that. Turned cotton straight to cloth.
Boston associates
Lowell joined with them and together they built a textile factory in Massachusetts. Built Lowell Massachusetts after Lowell died
Lowell girls
The young women the Boston associates hired to work in their factories.
Eli Whitney
American inventor, made the cotton gin
Spinning Jenny
A machine that could spin several threads at once
Capitalist
A person who invests in a business on order to make a profit
Factory system
Brought workers and machinery in one place to produce goods
Interchangeable parts
Machines tart make parts to a good that are exactly alike every time. Saved time and money
Urbanization
The movement of the population from farms to cities
Industrial revolution
Completely changed the way goods were made, started in Britian
