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Period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid 1700's.
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Industrial Revolution
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Another word for manufactured cloth?
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textiles
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Tools used to produce goods or to do work?
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technology
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Process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790's that called for making each vital part of a machine exactly the same.
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interchangeable parts
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Efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
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mass production
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Worker's organizations that try to inprove working conditions?
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trade unions
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Refusal of workers to perfom their job until employers meet union demands.
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strike
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Rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation; in the US it began in the early 1800's?
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Transportation Revolution
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Name of the first full-sized US Commerical steamboat; invented by Robert Fulton
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Clermont
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Sleek, fast, tall-masted sailing ship invented in 1840?
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clipper ship
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Machine invented by Samuel Morse in 1837 that used a system of dots and dashes to send messages long distances electronically through a wire.
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telegraph
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System developed that represented each letter of the alphabet by a certain combination of dots and dashes.
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Morse code
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Inventor of the mechanical reaper made to cut down wheat on farms.
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Cyrus McCormick
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Developed the sewing machine invented by one of his factory workers.
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Isacc Singer
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Inventor of the Steam powered boat?
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Robert Fulton
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English inventor of the spinning jenny which was a hand powered spinning wheel.
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James Hargreaves
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Inventor of the water frame, a large spinning wheel powered by a water wheel.
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Richard Arkwright
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British mechanic who came to the US and started his own texitle mill using the water frame invention?
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Samuel Slater
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New England businessman who used the water mill system to make cloth?
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Founder of the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association who worked hard to publicize the struggles of the factory workers.
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Sarah Bagley
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Manufacturer of one of the first steam trains called Tom Thumb, that raced against a horse?
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Peter Cooper
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Inventor of the steel plow?
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John Deere
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