Chapter 12 Review: The North and the Industrial Revolution

Period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s.

• Transportation Revolution

• Manufacturing Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Production Revolution

Another word for cloth items

• telegraph

• text message

• textiles

• time machine

Tools used to produce goods or do work that make your life easier.

• Technology

• textiles

• text messages

• parents

parts of a machine that are identical. (Made by Eli Whitney)

• mass production

• interchangeable parts

• identical production

• the Eli Whitney system

the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods

• interchangeable parts

• mass production

• textiles

• trade unions

Factories hired families and divided work into simple tasks.

• Lowell System

• Family System

• Rhode Island System

• Factory System

Water-powered textile mill that employed young women from local farms. The women lived in boarding houses and given meals

• Rhode Island System

• Women's System

• Lowell System

• Massachusetts System

Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.

• Strikes

• Factory Union

• Textiles

• Trade Unions

When workers refuse to work until their employers meet their demands.

• Trade Unions

• Strikes

• Demand System

• Textiles

Created the Clermont (a steamboat) and tested the design in France.

• Peter Cooper

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Robert Fulton

• Eli Whitney