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23 Cards in this Set
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industrial revolution |
a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700 |
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textiles |
cloth items |
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technology |
the tools used to produce items or to do work |
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interchangeable parts |
parts of a machine that are identical |
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mass production |
the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods |
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Rhode island system |
Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks |
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Lowell system |
water powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave in the same mill |
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trade unions |
groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions |
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strikes |
workers on strike refuse to work until employers meet their demands |
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transportation revolution |
a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation |
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Clermont |
the first full-sized commercial steamboat |
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Gibbons v. Ogden |
the court reinforced the federal governments authority to regulate trade between the states by ending monopolistic control over waterways in several states |
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telegraph |
a device that could send information over wires across great distance |
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Morse code |
different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet |
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cotton gin |
machine that removes seeds from short-staple cotton |
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planters |
large scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves |
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cotton belt |
this area of high cotton production |
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factors |
crop brokers |
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Tredegar iron works |
in Richmond, Virginia one of the most productive iron works in the nation |
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yeomen |
owners of small farms |
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folktales |
stories with a moral |
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spirituals |
emotional christian songs that blended African and European music |
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Nat Turner Rebillion |
the most violent slave revolt in the country |
