Review: The North

2. Concerns about low wages, job competition, and working conditions led to the formation of these; the organization of workers with a specific skill or from a single factory who tried to improve pay and working conditions for members.
4. He developed the strategy of hiring families and dividing work into simple tasks, known as the Rhode Island system.
6. ________________was a Supreme Court case about interstate trade.
7. Companies built their factories closer to __________ and transportation centers in the mid-1800s to provide themselves with access to workers.
9. The period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel.
13. In the 1760s, the first breakthrough of the Industrial Revolution changed how ______________
14. Alfred Lewis Vail developed a system known as ___________.
16. Francis Cabot Lowell developed mills featuring _______________ that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill.
17. Samuel Morse’s invention, the ____________________, enabled people to send news quickly from coast to coast by sending pulses of current through a wire.

1. Some challenges engineers and mechanics faced while building railroads was that railroads had to pass over ____________ and rivers.
3. In the 1870s, the demand for coal increased as the demand for steel grew because coal was used in __________ for steel production.
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8. During the Industrial Revolution, the shift to ______________ meant factories no longer had to be built near streams, rivers, or waterfalls.
10. The invention of the plow and the reaper helped the farming industry by enabling farmers to plan and harvest huge crop fields.
11. The ___________________was a locomotive credited with bringing “railroad fever” to the United States.
12. Mostly women worked in this system involving a 12-14 hour work day and living in boardinghouses.
15. Textile manufacturers kept the costs of running a mill low by hiring _________ and paying them very little.