Social Studies Flashcards
What is the Industrial revolution?
A rapid period of growth in using machines.
What are Textiles?
Cloth Items.
Who is Samuel Slater?
A skilled British Mechanic that memorized how textile Mills work.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Gave officials a proposal for mass producing guns.
What are interchangeable parts?
Parts of a machine that are identical.
What is Mass production?
The efficient way of producing a large number of identical goods.
What is the Rhode Island System?
Slaters strategy of hiring families.
What is the Lowell System?
Water powered textile Mills that employed young unmarried women.
What are trade unions?
Groups of people that tried to improve pay.
What are strikes?
Workers that refused to work until employees met their needs.
Who is Sarah G. Bagley?
shewanted 10 hour work days.
What is transportation revolution?
A period of rapid growth in the speed of convince.
Who is Robert Fulton?
He tested the first steamboat in France but later tested the first full sized commercial steamboat.
Who is Peter Cooper?
He built a small but powerful locomotive.
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse
He perfected the telegraph.
