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16 Cards in this Set
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Industrial Revolution
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in the early 1800's the country was moving towards factories and machinary to do a lot of the work.
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spinning jenny
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a machine that could spin several threads at once.
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capital
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money
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capitalist
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a person who invests money in a business in order to make a prophit.
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factory system
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a system that brought workers and machinery together in one place.
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Samuel slater and Moses Brown
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set up the first successful textile mill in the United States that was powered by water
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Eli Whitney
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came up with the system of interchangeable parts made by machine not by hand.
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Lowell Girls
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young farm girls who went to work in factories in Lowell, Massachusetts
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urbanization
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the movement of the population from farms to cities
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Lancaster Turnpike
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this toll road linked Philadelphia and Lancaster Pennsylvania
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Nation Road
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a road funded by the states that ran from Maryland down to Virginia
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John Fitch
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opened a ferry service on the Delaware River using a steam boat
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Erie Canal
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Canal linking the Great Lakes that would allow trade from the west to New York
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flatboat
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boats used to travel down the shallow Ohio River
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turnpike
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a toll road; travelers needed to pay a certain sum of money to use this road
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corduroy road
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roads made of logs; very noisy and bumpy
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