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| Rhode Island System | strategy of hiring families and dividing work into basic tasks, developed by Samuel Slater |
| craftspeople | Skilled artisans and workers who felt threatened by the growth of factories |
| coal | a natural resource that powered trains |
| Eli Whitney | inventor who created the cotton gin and came up with the idea of interchangeable parts |
| Robert Fulton | the developer of the United States' first full-size commercial steamboat |
| trade unions | groups that tried to secure better pay and working conditions for laborers |
| strike | a refusal of many workers to do their job until their employers meet demands |
| Sarah G. Bagley | a mill worker who campaigned for a ten-hour work day |
| telegraph | an invention that allowed people to send information over wires across long distances |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | a New England businessman who revolutionized the textile industry |
| Industrial Revolution | a time of rapid growth and invention of machinery for production and manufacturing |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | a Supreme Court case that ruled that the federal government would trade between states |
| locomotive | another name for a train |
| Transportation Revolution | part of the Industrial Revolution, technological developments that reduced shipping time and costs |
| textile | fabric or cloth |
| Clermont | the name of the first full-size commercial steamboat in the United States |
| interchangeable parts | parts of a machine that are identical |
| Cyrus McCormick | inventor of the mechanical reaper |
| Samuel Morse | inventor of the telegram |
