Chapter 12

  • Richard Arkwright invented a large spinning machine called a water frame

  • The first mill was opened

  • Eli Whitney address some of these problems

  • Slater formed his own company to build a mill

  • Robert Fulton tested his first steamboat design

  • The Clermont traveled the HUdson River

  • Lowells first textile mill opened

  • New Yorkers celebrated end of the War of 1812

  • Aaron Ogden sued Thomas Gibbons

  • built an even larger mill

  • Peter Cooper built a small locomotive

  • Cyrus developed a new harvesting machine

  • Samuel F. Morse perfected the telegraph

  • Sarah G. Bagley founded Lowell Female Labor Reform

  • Sarag Bagley was elected vice president