| A | B |
| James Hargreaves | Spinning Jenny |
| Eli Whitney | interchangeable parts |
| Samuel Slater | families worked in mills |
| Eli Terry | mass production to build inexpensive clocks |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | hired young girls to work in mills |
| factory workers' day | 12 to 14 hours |
| unions | groups set up to improve working conditions |
| strike | a refusal to do work |
| Martin Van Buren | limited federal workers to a 10 hour day |
| overtime | working more hours than you are required to |
| Robert Fulton | first steamboat |
| telegraph | instrument using a series of dots and dashes for letters |
| Samuel Morse | invented the Morse Code and telegraph |
| Peter Cooper | brought railroads to the United States |
| Sarah Bagley | started a union and publicized workers' struggles in the mill |
| Europe | Industrial Revolution began here |
| water and wind | first two types of power used in the Industrial Revolution |
| clipper ships | tall, narrow sailing ships |