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Chapter 11 “The North”
Part 2
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Industrial Revolution
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Country where the Industrial Revolution began
Britain (England)
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Definition of textile manufacturing
The making of cloth
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Person who illegally left England and brought the textile making secrets to the U.S.
Samuel Slater
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Eli Whitney’s idea that made machines easier to assemble and broken parts easier to replace
Interchangeable parts
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Why were there fewer mills in the South compared to the North
Agriculture (farming) was seen in the South as an easier way to make a living
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Due to the efforts of people like Sarah G. Bagley, what became the length of the typical work day
in some states?
10 hours per day
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How much were children paid compared to men and women in the mills?
They were paid less (no minimum wage laws)
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What was the Rhode Island System?
Slater hired families and divided factory work into simple tasks
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Besides paying their workers, what two other things did Lowell and Slater
provide for their workers?
Houses and stores
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For how many years did a typical Lowell girl work at a mill?
4 years
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What was the Tom Thumb?
Small, powerful locomotive
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Because it linked many parts of the country,this transportation invention was especially
helpful for advancing the economy.
Railroad
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What replaced wood as a source of power during theTransportation Revolution?
coal
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In the late 1870s, what increased the demand forcoal?
Needed to fire the furnaces that made steel
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Because lumber could be transported more easily once railroads were more widely used,
what took place on a large scale?
Deforestation – the cutting down and removal of trees
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What did the mechanical reaper do?
Quickly cut down wheat
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Inventor of the mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormick
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Using Elias Howe’s invention, who made
improvements on it and became the world’s largest maker of sewing machines by1860?
Isaac Singer
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In order to be able to buy the new inventions,
what two things did people like McCormick and Singer offer
to customers?
Buying on credit and repair services
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What is mass production?
Producing large identical amounts of an item
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What happens at a textile mill?
Cloth is made
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Practice of hiring entire families to work at a factory
Rhode Island System
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During what war did a blockade by British shipsforce Americans to buy manufactored goods from
American manufacturers instead of European suppliers
War of 1812
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Definition of “mass production”
Efficient production of large numbers of identical products
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Person (he provided the money) who teamed with Samuel Slater
to build the first textile mill in the U.S.
Moses Brown