Chapter 12

2. G. Bagley A strong voice in union movement, founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844 and publicized the struggles of factory laborers
7. System A method of factory work that was based on water-powered textile mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill
8. Fulton Developed the first full-sized commercial steamboat, called the Clermont
11. Deere Invented the first steel plow
12. Code Different combination of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet, invented by Alfred Lewis Vail
13. Revolution A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
14. Revolution A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid 1700s
16. Singer Improved and marketed the sewing machine, driving down the prices of household goods
18. Whitney United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)
19. v. Ogden The Supreme Court case which resulted in the reinforced federal government's authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states
20. F. B. Morse Perfected the telegraph in 1832
23. When labor unions staged protests
25. Union Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions

1. Slater A skilled British mechanic who immigrated to the United States after carefully memorizing the designs of textile mill machines
3. a device invented by Samuel F. B. Morse that could send information over wires across great distances
4. The first full-sized commercial steamboat in the United States
5. the tools used to produce items or to do work
6. Cabot Lowell A businessman from New England who developed a new approach to factory life (Lowell System)
9. Arkwright An Englishman who invented a large spinning machine called a water frame
10. parts parts of a machine that are identical--a revolutionary idea invented by Eli Whitney
15. Cloth items
17. McCormick Developed a new harvesting machine called the mechanical reaper
21. Production The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
22. Cooper Built the first small but powerful locomotive in the United States, called Tom Thumb
24. Island System Samuel Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks