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Foy Ch. 12 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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The first full-sized U.S. commercial steamboat; developed by Robert Fulton and tested in 1807. | Clermont |
A Supreme Court ruling in 1824 that reinforced the federal government’s authority over the states. | Gibbons v. Ogden |
A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700’s. | Industrial Revolution |
The rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation | Transportation Revolution |
A process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790’s that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same. | interchangeable parts |
The refusal of workers to perform their jobs until employers meet their demands. | strikes |
A system developed by Alfred Lewis Vail for the telegraph that used a certain combination of dots and dashes to represent each letter of the alphabet. | Morse code |
Cloth | textile |
The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods. | mass production |
Workers’ organizations that try to improve working conditions. | labor unions |
A machine perfected by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1832 that uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires. | telegraph |
The tools used to produce goods or to do work. | technology |
The use of waterpowered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women in the 1800’s, | Lowell System |
A system developed by Samuel Slater in the mid-1800’s in which whole families were hired as textile workers and factory work was divided into simple tasks. | Rhode Island System |