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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

In this year, the first steam-powered textile mill went into operation in Britain.

In this year, Robert Fulton's celebrated steamship, the Clermont, first plied the waters of the majestic Hudson.

In this year, Peter Cooper's locomotive, Tom Thumb, made itself a very useful engine.

In this year, the steamship, Sirius, was the first vessel to cross the Atlantic using only steam power (no sails).

In this year, president Van Buren shortened the workday for federal employees to ten hours.

He built the first successful locomotive in the USA in 1830.

He built the water-powered loom known as the water frame.

He invented the telegraph.

He invented Morse code.

He developed the steel plow.

This method of producing large numbers of identical products in factories using interchangeable parts and assembly lines was known as...

Tools used to produce goods or do work are known as...

During this bustling age in the nineteenth century when the locomotive and the steamboat rose to the fore, no place's status rose more than that of the urban hub.

This large, commercially successful steamboat was built by Robert Fulton.

In 1824, this dispute cemented the idea that only the federal government, and not the states, could regulate interstate commerce.

He invented the mechanical reaper.

He invented a reliable and affordable sewing machine.

He invented the safety pin in 1849.

This small but mighty locomotive named for a fairy tale character was developed by Peter Cooper in 1830.

In 1840, this "little magician" reduced the workday for federal employees to ten hours.