Industrial Revolution

a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production

• Transportation Revolution

• American Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Technology Revolution

a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel

• Transportation Revolution

• American Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Technology Revolution

cloth item

• union

• strike

• clermont

• textile

parts of a machine that are identical

• telegraph parts

• interchangeable parts

• textile mills

• morse code

tools used to produce items or to do work

• strikes

• technology

• unions

• telegraph

the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods

• mass production

• interchangeable parts

• textile mills

• morse code

Samuel Slater strategy to hire large families and divide work into simple tasks

• Lowell System

• Samuel Slater System

• Rhode Island System

• Virginia System

system that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill and employed young unmarried women from local farms

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Lowell System

• Rhode Island System

groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions

• union

• strikes

• technology

• industrial revolution

workers that refuse to work until employers meet their demands

• unions

• strikes

• textile mills

• mass production factories