https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5 Period 6 History en-us 2018-01-22 21:31:01 UTC 2025-11-19 17:57:29 UTC hello@padlet.com 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223573035 The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.]]> 2018-01-22 21:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223573035 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574025 Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution.]]> 2018-01-22 21:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574025 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574277 Samuel Slater was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" and the "Father of the American Factory System."]]> 2018-01-22 21:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574277 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574369 Technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation.]]> 2018-01-22 21:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574369 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574704 Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.]]> 2018-01-22 21:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574704 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574942 Interchangeable parts are parts that are, for practical purposes, identical. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type. ]]> 2018-01-22 21:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223574942 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575120 Mass production is the manufacture of large quantities of standardized products, frequently utilizing assembly line technology. Mass production refers to the process of creating large numbers of similar products efficiently.]]> 2018-01-22 21:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575120 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575290 A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union or labor union, is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade.]]> 2018-01-22 21:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575290 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575450 Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became common during the Industrial Revolution, when mass labor became important in factories and mines.]]> 2018-01-22 21:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575450 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575770 Sarah George Bagley was a labor leader in New England during the 1840s; an advocate of shorter workdays for factory operatives and mechanics, she campaigned to make ten hours of labor per day the maximum in Massachusetts.]]> 2018-01-22 21:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575770 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575980 The period where steam power, railroads, canals, roads, and bridges emerged as new forms of transportation.]]> 2018-01-22 21:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223575980 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223576327 An apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel. Nautical.]]> 2018-01-22 21:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223576327 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223576568 Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.]]> 2018-01-22 21:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223576568 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223576748 The story of John Deere, who developed the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow, closely parallels the settlement and development of the midwestern United States.Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont, on February 7, 1804, the third son of William Rinold Deere and Sarah Yates Deere.

]]> 2018-01-22 21:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223576748 304547 https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223577058 Isaac Merritt Singer was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.]]> 2018-01-22 21:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/304547/wctrk5naw0x5/wish/223577058