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What was the primary purpose of the Lowell system?
What was the primary purpose of the Lowell system?
- To reduce the cost of production in the textile industry
- To promote the growth of trade unions
- To improve working conditions for young men
- To employ young, unmarried women in textile mills (correct)
What was the main purpose of the Gibbons v. Ogden Supreme Court ruling?
What was the main purpose of the Gibbons v. Ogden Supreme Court ruling?
- To protect the rights of workers in the industrial sector
- To limit the power of the federal government over the states
- To reinforce the federal government's authority over the states (correct)
- To promote the growth of the transportation industry
What was the primary function of the telegraph machine developed by Samuel Morse?
What was the primary function of the telegraph machine developed by Samuel Morse?
- To transmit messages using a series of coded messages
- To transmit images over long distances
- To send pulses of electric current through wires to convey messages (correct)
- To send messages through a system of mirrors and lights
What was the significance of the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney?
What was the significance of the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney?
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What was the primary focus of Nat Turner's Rebellion?
What was the primary focus of Nat Turner's Rebellion?
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What was the primary focus of the Industrial Revolution?
What was the primary focus of the Industrial Revolution?
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Who is credited with founding the American cotton industry?
Who is credited with founding the American cotton industry?
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What innovation in manufacturing did Eli Whitney introduce?
What innovation in manufacturing did Eli Whitney introduce?
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What was the main characteristic of the Rhode Island system?
What was the main characteristic of the Rhode Island system?
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What was a key feature of the Lowell system?
What was a key feature of the Lowell system?
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Industrial Revolution
- Period of rapid growth in machine-based manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
- Characterized by the development of textile mills and the introduction of new technologies
Key Figures
- Samuel Slater: English industrialist who brought a design for a textile mill to America, founder of the American cotton industry
- Eli Whitney: American inventor who developed the cotton gin, enabling large increases in cotton production and introducing mass production through interchangeable parts
- Francis Cabot Lowell: American industrialist who developed the Lowell system, a mill system that included looms that could both weave thread and spin cloth
Industrial Systems
- Rhode Island system: developed by Samuel Slater, where whole families were hired as textile workers and factory work was divided into simple tasks
- Lowell system: used water-powered textile mills, employing young, unmarried women in the 1800s
Labor and Unions
- Trade Unions: workers' organizations that aim to improve working conditions
- Strikes: the refusal of workers to perform their jobs until employers meet their demands
Transportation and Communication
- Transportation Revolution: rapid growth in speed and convenience of transportation
- Gibbons v. Ogden: Supreme Court ruling that reinforced federal government's authority over the states
- Telegraph: machine perfected by Samuel B. Morse in 1832, using pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires
- Morse code: system developed by Alfred Lewis Vail, using a combination of dots and dashes to represent each letter of the alphabet
Agriculture and Technology
- John Deere: American industrialist who developed a steel plow to ease difficulty of turning thick soil on the Great Plains
- Cotton gin: machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to remove seeds from short-staple cotton, revolutionizing the cotton industry
- Cotton belt: region stretching from South Carolina to east Texas where most US cotton was produced during the mid-1800s
Slavery and Slave Culture
- Overseers: men hired by farmers or planters to oversee and direct the work of slaves on a plantation
- Spirituals: emotional Christian songs sung by enslaved people in the South, mixing African and European elements and expressing slaves' religious beliefs
- Nat Turner: American slave leader who claimed divine inspiration led him to end the slavery system, leading to Nat Turner's Rebellion, the most violent slave revolt in US history
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