chapter 12

  • richard arkwright invented a large spinnig machine

  • Slater opened thier first mill

  • slater formed his own company to build a mill

  • Eli whitney came up with interchangable parts

  • clermont traveled up the hudson river without trouble

  • secretary of the treasury alber gallatin sugessted why there were so many factories

  • lowell's first textile mill opened

  • New yorkers celebrated the end of the war of 1812

  • lowell built a larger mill

  • gibbons v ogden

  • peter cooper built a small pwerfull locomotive

  • matin van buren had granted a 10 hour workday

  • stuglle of factory labors

  • sarah bagley was elected vice president

  • steamboats were being used to carry people and good across the atlantic ocean