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| Industrial Revolution | a period of rapid growth in the use of Machines in manufacturing and production |
| Textiles | one of the first breakthroughs in IR; cloth |
| Interchangeable Parts | each vital part that went into making the product would be made exactly the same |
| Mass Productions | the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods, with greater success |
| Trade Unions | organizations created by workers to improve working conditions |
| Strike | the refusal to work until employers meet union demands |
| Transportation Revolution | the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation |
| Clermont | the first steamboat used for commercial purposes |
| Clipper Ships | sleek tallmasted sailing ships with many sails that had hulls that sliced through the water with great speed |
| Telegraph | machine invented by Samuel Morse in 1837 that used a system of dots and dashes to send messages long distances electronically through a wire |
| Morse Code | System developed by Samuel Morse that represented each letter of the alphabet by a certain combination of dots and dashes; used with a telegraph |
| Cotton Gin | invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to separate cotton plants’ fibers from the seeds and revolutionized the cotton industry |
| Planters | Large scale southern farmers who owned 20 or more slaves |
| Cotton Belt | Region stretching from Georgia to east Texas where most US cotton was produced during the mid-1800’s |
| Scientific Agriculture | Use of scientific techniques to improve crop production |
| Factors | Crop brokers who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers |
| Yeomen | small landowning farmers |
| Folktales | Oral stories that provide a moral |
| Spirituals | emotional Christian songs sung by slaves in the south that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves’ religious beliefs |
| Nat Turner’s Rebellion | rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves in Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families |
