A | B |
Eli Whitney | person who invented the Cotton Gin |
Samuel Slater | memorized plans of a British Mill and designed the first American Factory |
Hannah Slater | discovered how to make stronger thread |
James Hargreaves | person who invented the Spinning Jenny |
capitalists | people with money to invest in hopes of making a profit |
Edmund Cartwright | built a water loom water that allowed workers to produce up to 200 times more thread in a day |
factory system | this brought workers and machines together in one place to produce goods |
Industrial Revolution | process by which jobs moved from faming to the factory |
Moses Brown | Quaker merchant who built the first American Factory |
Richard Arkwright | built the water frame that could hold and spin up to 100 spindles of thread at a time |