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The U.S. changes as it industrializes. Early 1800s.

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What is an "agrarian society"?

Agricultural/ farming way of life

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What are the steps in making fabric from sheep's wool?

Shearing the wool, carding wool into slivers, spinning the slivers into thread, weaving (on a loom) the thread into fabric

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Who was Samuel Slater?

Slater brought designs of spinning machines from G.B. and built his own textile factories in New England.

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What are textiles?

Cloth

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What successful businessman financed Slater's mills?

Moses Brown

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What was the nickname for girls that came from farms to work in the mills?

Lowell Girls

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What source powered the textile mills?

Water

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Why was the Northeast the area where mills/ factories were first built?

Presences of streams with run off from melting. Population of workers. Merchant trading ships and ports.

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What was the shift from hand tools to power driven machinery called?

Industrial Revolution

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What did James Hargreaves invent?

The first mechanical spinning wheel, called the "spinning jenny".

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What did Richard Arkwright invent and what made it important?

A spinning machine called "the water frame". It made stronger thread.

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What is the process of making large numbers of identical goods in great quantities called?

mass production

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What invention by Eli Whitney allowed for the replacement of individual parts in guns?

Interchangeable parts

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Who was Sarah Bagley? What did she do?

She was a "Lowell girl" who fought for better working conditions in the factories by forming the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association.

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What are organizations that workers form to improve their working conditions?

Labor unions

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When workers protest unsafe and unjust working conditions by refusing to work until their demands are met it is called?

A strike.

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