Growth of Manufacturing 124-145 (40) Flashcards
By 1860, the percentage of the United States
workforce employed in manufacturing was
ABOUT
14%
As employers, United States textile mills in the
early 1800s
Tightly Controlled their workers lives
MOST employees of textile mills in the early
1800s were
young women
The placement of thread spinning and cloth
weaving operations in a single plant is an
example of
vertical integration
Which of the following machines was used for
spinning thread?
water frame
Which of the following Massachusetts cities
housed the first factories with power looms for
textile manufacturing?
Waltham
Which industrialist operated the first power
looms for textile manufacturing in the United
States?
Francis Lowell
How did Britain attempt to protect its textile
industry from foreign competition in the late
eighteenth century?
prohibiting exports of textile machinery
Whose move from Britain to the United States
helped jumpstart the American Industrial
Revolution in textile production?
Samuel Slater’s
Embargo- and war-based protection of early
U.S. domestic industry ended in
1815
The European trade embargo that spurred early
United States industrial growth was a response
to war between Britain and
France
Which of the following United States presidents
ordered a European trade embargo that
indirectly boosted American industrial
development?
Thomas Jefferson
What circumstance first caused the marginal
product of labor for agricultural workers to fall
steeply in the region where American factories
first emerged?
The region ran out of well-yielding land.
Which of the following regions was the first to
have an abundance of factories?
New England
The earliest forms of American manufacturing
involved around
textiles
