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16 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-1700s. |
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Textile |
or cloth items |
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technology |
the tools used to produce items or to do work. |
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interchangeable |
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 textiles mills that employed young, unmarried woman from local farms.The system included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill. |
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Trade Union |
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 Gibbons v. Ogden reached the Supreme Court in 1824, the court reinforced the federal government's 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 distances. |
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Morse Code |
Different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphbet |
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Cotton Gin |
A machine that removes seeds from short-staple coton. |
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Planters |
large-scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves. |
