Lexy Brown Chapter 13 Reveiw

6. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common
9. an Englishman who worked in textile mills; hired many families including children
10. was the first inventor in the United States credited with making a product with interchangeable parts
11. organizations of craft workers, such as weavers or carpenters
12. for machinery use replaced horsepower
15. a historic highway that in the early 19th century led from Maryland through the Appalachian Mountains to St. Louis in Missouri. It was once the major route for western expansion.
16. the location of the Lowell mill
18. a frame or machine for weaving cloth
22. machines spun cotton into thread, workers included families, owner built a community for worker, owner had control over workers
23. adopted the ways of another culture
26. all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.
27. a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially to a manual or unskilled worker.
28. machines spun cotton into thread, machines wove thread into cloth, workers were young women, owner built a community for workers, owner had control over workers
29. the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.wages
30. a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. Workers fought for better wages, conditions, and fewer work hours

1. a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
2. the river that powered the Lowell mill
3. a type of cloth or woven fabric.
4. the transition from products being made by hand to being made in large factories
5. the location of the Slater mill
7. parts of a product that could easily be changed
8. provided housing, stores, and schools for Slater Mill workers
13. form by interlacing long threads passing in one direction with others at a right angle to them.
14. to make in large amounts, usually by machinery
17. the use of highly efficient technical means to ease mental labor and increase productivity
19. worked in the cotton industry, created the Lowell system, and used a mechanized loom
20. developed for use in the manufacturing process in factories
21. using machines to replace human labor
24. an organized association of workers in a trade, group of trades, or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests; a labor union
25. a person opposed to immigrants and favors only people born in the United States