| A | B |
|---|
| Industrial Revolution | Period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production. |
| Textiles | Cloth. |
| Technology | Tools used to produce goods or to do work. |
| Mass Production | Efficient production of large numbers of identical goods. |
| Trade Unions | Workers' organizations that try to improve working conditions. |
| Strike | Refusal of workers to perform their job until employers meet union demands. |
| Transportation Revolution | Rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation. |
| Clipper Ship | Tall-masted sailing ships invented in the 1840's. |
| Telegraph | Machine that used a system of dots and dashes to send messages across long distances. |
| Morse Code | System using dots and dashes to represent letters of the alphabet. |
| James Hargreaves | Invented the Spinning Jenny. |
| Richard Arkwright | Invented the Water Frame. |
| Edmund Cartwright | Invented the Water Powered Loom. |
| Samuel Slater | Former British mill apprentice who illegally left England and built the first textile mill in the U.S. |
| Eli Whitney | Invented Interchangeable Parts. |
| Eli Terry | Invented Mass Production. |
| Frances Cabot Lowell | Built factory that combined weaving and spinning in one factory. |
