Chapter 12

7. parts of a machine that are identical
8. system water powered textile Mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms
9. The first full sized commercial steamboat
10. the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
11. a device that could send information over wires across great distances
12. the tools used to produce items or to do work

1. slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
2. workers who refuse to work until employers meet their demands
3. cloth items
4. different combinations of dogs and dashes that represent the alphabet
5. a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
6. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions