Bodamer SS 8 Ch 12 Vocabulary

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

• Industrial Revolution

• Technology

• Mass Production

• Interchangeable Parts

The tools used to produce items or to do work.

• Technology

• Interchangeable Parts

• Mass Production

• Industrial Revolution

Inventor who came up with the idea for interchangeable parts.

• Eli Whitney

• Richard Arkwright

• Samuel Morse

• John Deere

The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.

• Mass Production

• Interchangeable Parts

• Industrial Revolution

• Technology

Parts of a machine that are identical.

• Technology

• Interchangeable Parts

• Industrial Revolution

• Mass Production

Strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.

• Rhode Island System

• Lowell System

• Unions

• Mills System

New England businessman whose ideas changed the textile industry in the Northeast.

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Morse

• Peter Cooper

Based on water powered textile mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms.

• Lowell System

• Cooper System

• Rhode Island System

• Water Based System

Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.

• Federal Government

• Trade Unions

• Strikes

• Lowell System

The refusal by employees to work until employers meet their demands.

• Strike

• Retirement

• Trade Union

• Workers' Rights