| A | B |
|---|
| cotton gin | Simple machine that quickly and efficiently removed seeds from cotton fiber |
| interchangeable parts | Identical machine parts that could quickly be put together to make a complete product or replace like parts. |
| patent | A document that gives inventor sole legal right to invention and its profits for a period of time. |
| factory system | A system in which all manufacturing steps come together in one place to increase efficiency |
| capitalism | Economic system in which individuals put capital, into a business to try to make it successful and profitiable. |
| capital | Money for investment |
| free enterprise | Economic structure in which people are free to buy, sell and produce whatever they want. |
| contribute | Add to something |
| element | One part of a larger whole |
| Industrial Revolution | Took route in the U.S. around 1800. People left their homes and farms to work in the mills and earn wages. |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin and used interchangeable parts. |
