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Created the locomotive which was imported to the United States from Britian in 1831
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John Bull
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Did not like the idea of the locomotive, thought it disturbed the peace
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Industrial Revolution began in _____ in the _____ with changes in the textile, or cloth making, industry
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Britain and 1700s
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Groups of spinners and weavers gradually began working together in building towns known as _____, usually located on a _____ or ____ using the power of flowing ____to run their tools
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____ ____, ___ ___, and ___ ___ all helped mechanize the process of spinning and weaving cloth
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spinning jenny, water frame, power loom
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Played a particularly important role in Industial Revolution
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steam engine
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Who developed the first practical steam engine in Britain between 1765 and 1785?
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James Watt
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He immigrated to the United States 1789 and when he got ther he reproduced Britains complex machinery; him and his partners established the nation's first successful water- powered textile mill in1793
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Samuel Slater
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Extra note-
By law textile workers could nto moveout of Britain, and no one could send pictures of the machinery to anothery country; this is why Britain kept everything to themselves their jelousy. |
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By what year did the United States boast some 240 textile mills, most of them in Pennsylvania, New York, and New England
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1814
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Who was a mill builder, who Samuel Slater apprenticed, who was a pioneer in the use of new British textile tchnoglogy
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Jedediah Strutt
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New England inventor, who was credited eith developing an idea that changed the industry forever; also invented the cottin gin
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Eli Whitney
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He created the interchangable parts that allowed for guns to be assembled the same and it was easier to change parts; gine means "engine" or machine; he gained a patent in 1794 for this invention
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What was it called when the roads where laid down with logs
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corduroy roads
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Engineers built the ____ ___ also called the National Road, it was financed bu the federal government and construction began in Cumberland, Maryland and continued westward; today it is known as the U.S. Route 40
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Cumberland Road
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Toll roads became know as ____, at key locations on the road they put up pikes that blocked the way until the tenant payed the fine
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turnpikes
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What provided the country's major transporation routes, and hand- powered keelboats served as the main vehicle for travelers goods
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Rivers
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Developed a boat that ran on steam power using one of James Watt's steam engine. Known as the Clermont; the steam shovel (for digging canals)
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Robert Fulton
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The Clermont demonstrated the great advantage of the steamboat; it could travel upriver against the current and was much faster than sailing ships, Fulton was NOT the first steamboat to navigate the waters of an American river but it was the first COMMERCIALLY successful steamboast
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First Americn steamboat was in_____ created by
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1787, John Fitch
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The first completley mechanized cotton mill was created by who and when
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Francis C. Lowell, 1814
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The first U.S. canning factory was created by who and when
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William underwood in 1820
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An internal cumbustion engine was crated by who and when
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1826 Samuel Morey
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