Chapter 11 “The North”

Part 2

Ms. Monteiro

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Changes in Working Life

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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