12.2 Homework

Factory jobs usually involved simple, repetitive tasks done for low pay.

• true

• false

Samuel Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks was called the.....

• Gieson System

• Lowell System

• Rhode Island System

• The Lowell system involved

• • Employing young, unmarried women

• Providing clean factories and free-time activities for its employees

• Having mills that included both spinning thread and weaving in the same plant

• None of these

• Craftsmen formed ______ to gain higher wages and better working conditions.

• quality control groups

• a new government

• • trade unions

Sarah Bagley’s union campaigned to reduce the 20-hour workday to a 5-hour workday.

• true

• false

Wages (pay) of factory workers dropped as more people competed for jobs.

• true

• false

It was NOT very common for whole families, including young children, to be employed by factories.

• true

• false

The spread of mills in the Northeast caused a need for more_______

• workers

• food

• textiles

• slaves