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32 Cards in this Set
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Period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufactoring and production that began in the mid 1700s.
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Industrial Revolution
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List 6 inventions that helped make life at home more convenien.
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Sewing machines, safty pin, icebox, iron cook stoves, indoor plumbing, and clocks
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Most European and Americans were of this profession.
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farmers
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How did John Deere help farmers?
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He made a steel plow , which made it easier to dig in the dirt.
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The mechanical reaper was developed by?
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Cyrus McCormick
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The mechanical reaper was developed by?
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Cyrus McCormick
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Who invented the telegraph?
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Samuel F. B. Morse.
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How did the mechanical reaper and the steel plow help the midwestern farmer?
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Allowed them to plant and harvest huge fields of wheat.
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The first major breakthrough of the Industrial Revolution took place in which industry?
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textiles
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The first sucessful steamboat was invented by ________ ______ and its name was the ______.
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Robert Fulton/ Clermont
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Process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s, that called for making each vital part of a machine exactly the same.
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Interchangeable parts
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Define Lowell System
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The use of water powered textile mills that employed unmarried women in the 1800s.
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This inventor was responsible for the interchangeable parts ideal.
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Eli Whitney
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What did the New England region possess that helped industry to grow there?
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mills nad fast-flowing rivers to supply power
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The growth of which industry led to the first Supreme Court's ruling on commerce between states.
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Steamboat shipping
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According to Albert Gallation give 3 reasons why the U.S. had few factories.
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Abundance of farmland, high price or labor, lack of money for investments.
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Define Trade Unions
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Workers' organizations that try to improve pay and working conditions.
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What was the biggest advantage of steam powered engines in the factories?
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build their faactories anywhere.
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Define Transportation Revolution.
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Rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation,in the United Stated this beganin early 1800s.
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How did they meet these challenges?
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Built faster and more powerful steam locomotives.
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What advantage did the new textile machine give Great Britain?
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to produce cloth faster and cheaper than other countries could
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These 2 inventions used what form of energy?
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Steam Engines
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Efficient production of large number of identical goods.
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Mass production
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What replaced water power in the factories?
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Steam Power
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System developed by Samual Morse's assistant that represented each letter of the alphabet by a certain combination of dots and dashes:used with the telegraph.
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Morse Code
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Define Gibbons v Ogden
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Supreme Court ruling that federal law has priority over- equivelent of interstate commerce.
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Why were few mills built in the South.
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Investors in the region concentrated on expanded agriculture.
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How did Richard Arkwright help make a dramatic change in the textile industry?
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patented a large spinning machine, called water frame, that ran on water power
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List 3 physical obstacles that railroad engineers and mechanics had to overcome to build the first tracks.
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Steep mountains, swift rivers, and tight curves.
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Which 2 forms of transportation were inbented during this year.
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Steamboat and railroad
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Which 2 industries grew as a result of the other?
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Telegraph and railroad
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Systems developed by Samuel Slater in the mid-1800s in which families were hired as textile workers.
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Rhode Island System
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