Chapter 12

3. a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s.
6. or cloth items
10. Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks became known as the
11. different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet.
12. the first full-sized commercial steamboat

1. a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
2. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.
4. parts of a machine that are identical.
5. based on water powered textile mills that employed young,unmarried women
7. Workers on strike refuse to work until employers meet their demands.
8. the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
9. the tools used to produce items or to do work.