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14 Cards in this Set
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a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
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Industrial Revolution
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cloth items
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textiles
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tools used to produce items or to do work
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technology
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parts of a machine that are identical
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interchangeable parts
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the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
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mass production
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strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple task
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Rhode Island System
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the use of water powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women in the 1800s
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Lowell System
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groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
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trade unions
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the refusal of workers to perform their jobs until employers meet their demands
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strikes
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a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of traveling
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Transportation Revolution
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the first full-sized commercial steamboat
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Clermont
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a Supreme court ruling that reinforced the federal government's authority over the states
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Gibbons vs. Ogden
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a device that could send information over wires across great distances
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telegraph
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different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
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Morse Code
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