This entrepreneur brought British textile production technology to the United States.

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• Sarah G. Bagley

• Robert Fulton

This entrepreneur employed mostly young unmarried women in his textile mills.

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• Sarah G. Bagley

• Robert Fulton

This inventor of the cotton gin was the first industrialist to use machine tools to produce interchangeable parts that could be used to mass produce finished goods such as muskets.

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• Sarah G. Bagley

• Robert Fulton

This reformer fought for safer working conditions for textile workers and advocated reducing work hours to ten hours per day.

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• Sarah G. Bagley

• Robert Fulton

This innovator built the first large commercially viable steamship in the United States, the Clermont.

• Samuel Slater

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• Sarah G. Bagley

• Robert Fulton

This was Samuel Slater's scheme for hiring entire families to work in factories and dividing work into simple tasks.

• Rhode Island System

• Lowell System

• Trade Unions

• Strikes

• Interchangeable Parts

In this paradigm young, unmarried women would be provided with room and board while working at water-powered textile mills where natural fibers such as cotton or wool would be spun into thread that was then woven into cloth.

• Rhode Island System

• Lowell System

• Trade Unions

• Strikes

• Interchangeable Parts

Groups of workers organized by profession who banded together to fight for safer worker conditions, reduced hours, and better pay.

• Rhode Island System

• Lowell System

• Trade Unions

• Strikes

• Interchangeable Parts

Strategic work stoppages designed to force employers to accept workers demands for safer working conditions, fair wages, reasonable hours, and the right to bargain collectively.

• Rhode Island System

• Lowell System

• Trade Unions

• Strikes

• Interchangeable Parts

Parts built so precisely by machine tools that parts from any individual product would fit any other product that was mass produced at the same factory.

• Rhode Island System

• Lowell System

• Trade Unions

• Strikes

• Interchangeable Parts