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10 Cards in this Set
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The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by
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Eli Whitney.
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The secrets of the British textile industry made it possible to build the first successful water-powered textile mill in America.
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Samuel Slater
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Workers and machines came together under one roof, usually near a source of water to power the machines.
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factory system
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The songs in which enslaved people of the South expressed their religious beliefs or passed coded messages were called
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spirituals.
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For what is Nat Turner best known?
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leading an armed revolt of some 70 slaves
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Machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main source of work.
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Industrial Revolution
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How did the cotton gin change the South?
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It encouraged Southerners to grow more cotton.
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-The steamboat improved transportation by carrying people and goods faster, even against a river current or a strong wind.
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Robert Fulton
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The telegraph allowed a person to communicate almost instantly with other people in distant places.
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Samuel F.B. Morse
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Young girls lived in company-owned boardinghouses and worked in factories for 121/2 hours a day.
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Lowell
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