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What are textiles?
Cloth
What source powered the textile mills?
Water
Why was the Northeast the area where mills/ factories were first built?
Presences of streams with run off from melting. Population of workers. Merchant trading ships and ports.
What was the shift from hand making products to making products in factories called?
Industrial Revolution
What is the process of making large numbers of identical goods in great quantities called?
mass production
What invention by Eli Whitney allowed for the replacement of individual parts in guns?
Interchangeable parts
Who was Sarah Bagley? What did she do?
She was a "Lowell girl" who fought for better working conditions in the factories by forming the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association.
What are organizations that workers form to improve their working conditions?
Labor unions
When workers protest unsafe and unjust working conditions by refusing to work until their demands are met it is called?
A strike.
In 1840 the federal government set a workday limit of how many hours a day?
Ten
A person who leaves a country to live somewhere else is called?
An emigrant
A person who arrives in a country to live after leaving another country is called?
An immigrant
Early immigrants (in the 19th Century) who to the U.S. came mostly from what three countries?
Ireland, Great Britain and Germany
People who believed the newcomers and unlimited immigration would destroy American institutions were called?
Nativists
A new anti-immigration political party was formed in 1849. What was it called? What were the members often called?
The American Party. The "Know Nothings".
Free African Americans who moved north usually worked what kind of jobs?
Men: Service jobs like house servants, waiters, barbers etc.
Women: laundresses, dressmakers, cooks etc.
