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25 Cards in this Set
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Industrial Revolution
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A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufactoring and production that began in the mid- 1700s
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Textiles
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cloth items
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Richard Arkwright
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invented a large spinning machine called a water frame
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Samuel Slater
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skilled British mechanic memorized the textile machines and made one in the U.S.
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Technology
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tools used to produce items or to do work
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Eli Whitney
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made mass-producing guns for the U.S. and proposed idea for interchangeable parts
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Interchangeable Parts
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parts of a machine that are identical
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Mass Production
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efficient production of large number of identical goods
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Rhode Island System
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Slater's strategy of hiring families ad dividing factory work into simple task
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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businessman from New England that had a different system for mills
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Lowell Sysyem
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based on water-powered textiles that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill
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Trade Unions
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groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
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Strikes
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refuse to wrk until employers met their demands
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Sarah G. Bagley
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founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844 and publicizied the stuggles of factory laborers
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Transportaion Revolution
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a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation
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Robert Fulton
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invented the first steamboat
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Clermont
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first full sized commericial steamboat
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Gibson vs Ogden
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the Court reinforced the governments authority to regulate trade between the staes by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states
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Peter Cooper
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built a smal but powerful locomotive call the Tom Thumb
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Samuel F. B. Morse
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perfected the telegraph in 1832
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Telegraph
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could send info over wires across great distances
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Morse Code
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differet combos of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
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John Deere
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designed a steel plow
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Cyrus McCormick
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devolped the mecanical reaper
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Isaac Singer
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made improvenments to the sewing machine
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