Chapter 12

5. workers on a strike refuse to work until employers meet their demands.
8. revolution: a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of Transportation.
11. system: was based on water powered textile mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms.
13. the first full sized comercial steamboat.
14. a device that could send information over wires across great distances.
15. singer: made improvements to Howe's design, which was the sewing machine.
16. production: the effiecient production of large numbers of identical goods.
17. cooper:he built a small but powerful locomotibe called the tom thumb.

1. vs. Ogden:the court reinforced the federal goverments authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states.
2. fulton:he tested his first steamboat design in france.
3. the tools used to produce items or to do work.
4. deere: he saw that friends in illinios had difficulty plowingthick soil with iron plows. He thought a steel blade might work better.
6. code: different combinations of dots and dashes that represent the letters of the alphabet.
7. island system: slaters strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.
8. or cloth items
9. G. Bagley: she founded the lowell female labor reform association in 1844 and publicized the struggle of factory laborers.
10. revolution: a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid- 1700s.
12. slater: a skilled british mechanic, immigrated to the U.S after carefully memorizing the designs of textile mill machines.
13. mcormick: developed a new harvesting machine, the mechanical reaper, which quickly and efficiently cut down wheat.
14. unions: groups that try to improve pay and working conditions.