North- Industrial Rev

Who created the first commercial steamboat?

• Samuel Slater

• Thomas Gibbons

• Robert Fulton

• John Deere

Refusing to work until an employer meets workers demands is called a what?

• Trade Union

• Strike

• Water Frame

• Lowell System

Strategy of hiring families to help divide work up at factories was called?

• Rhode Island System

• Lowell System

• trade union

• mass production

Employing young unmarried women from local farms to work in mills was called?

• Rhode Island System

• Lowell System

• trade union

• interchangeable parts

Who came up with the idea of interchangeable parts?

• Samuel Slater

• Robert Fulton

• Eli Whitney

• Thomas Gibbons

Interchangeable parts eventually leads to what?

• strikes

• water frames

• morse code

• mass production

Many girls at the mills had money taken out of their paycheck for what service?

• Work uniforms

• hair cuts

• room and board

• insurance

Samuel Slater came from what country?

• Spain

• France

• Germany

• England

Why did Slater have to disguise himself as a farmer in order to leave the country?

• Farmers get mad respect

• Skilled workers got NO respect

• He was hoping to travel 1st Class

• It was illegal for skilled workers to leave.

Cloth items were also known as what during the Industrial Revolution?

• strikes

• raw cotton

• textiles

• lowell system