US History Chapter 12

cloth items

an inventor who patented a large spinning machine

a skilled British mechanic who could build the new textile machines

the tools used to produce items or to do work

an inventor with an idea for mass-producing guns

pieces that are exactly the same

the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods

Productive and not wasteful

Samuel Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.

a New England businessman who built a loom that could both weave thread and spin cloth in the same mill

Lowell's practice of hiring young unmarried women to work in his mills.

groups of skilled workers that tried to improve members' pay and working conditions

union workers' refusal to work until their employers met their demands

a mill worker who founded the Lowell Femail Labor Reform Association

specific or real

a period of rapid growth in the speed and conveninece of travel

an American who had the first full-time commerical steamboat in the United States.

a steamboat that could travel up the Hudson River with no trouble

the first U.S. Supreme Court ruling on commerce between states.

an American who built the Tom Thumb

the inventor of the telegraph

a device that could send information over wires across great distances

a system in which dots and dashes are used

a blacksmith who first used the steel plow design

the developer of a new harvesting machine called a mechanical reaper

an inventor who made improvements in the design of the sewing machine