| A | B |
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| Industrial Revolution | economic changes of the late 1700s, when manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
| Samuel Slater | builder of the first water powered textile mill in America and brought industrial secrets to America |
| Peter Cooper | builder of America's first successful steam-powered locomotive |
| Andrew Meikle | invented the threshing machine |
| Robert Fulton | inventor of America's first widely successful steamboat |
| factory system | method of production using many workers and machines in one building |
| Lowell mills | textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | inventor of the telegraph |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the mechanical reaper |
| interchangeable parts | new manufacturing method discovered by Eli Whitney in which manufacturers used parts that are exactly alike so they can easily be replaced and assembled |
| Clermont | first steamboat |
| John Deere | invented the plow |
| children and then whole families | people that Slater hired to work in his mills |
| people moved to cities | how the factory system affected peoples way of life |
| women | people who worked in the Lowell Mills |
| water power | early factories ran on this |
| powerful steam engines | factories built after the 1830s were run on this |
| fast-moving rivers, it had ships and access to the ocean; ready labor force of farmers | reason New England was a good place to build factories |
| Tom Thumb | first American steamboat |
| speeded up production, make repairs easy; allwed the use of less-skilled workers | way in which interchangeable parts improved the manufacturing process |
