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11 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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Textiles |
Cloth items |
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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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Trade unions |
Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions |
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Strikes |
Workers on strike refuse to work until employees 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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Tom Thumb |
A small but powerful locomotive built by Peter Cooper |
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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 alphabet |
