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| Industrial Revolution | a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700's |
| textiles | cloth items |
| Richard Arkwright | invented a large spinning wheel called a water frame |
| Samuel Slater | a skilled British mechanic , invented textile machines/sewing machines |
| interchangeable parts | parts of a machine that are identical |
| mass production | the eficient production of large numbers of identical goods |
| Eli Whitney | came up with the idea of interchangeable parts |
| Rhode Island System | Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks |
| The Lowell System | based on water-powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms. It included a loom that could spin both thread and weave cloth in the same mill. |
| trade unions | groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions |
| strikes | when workers refused to work until employers met their demands. |
| Sarah G Bagley | founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844 and publicized the struggles of factory laborers |
| Transportation Revolution | a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenienve of travel because of new methods of transportation |
| Robert Fulton | steamboat designer |
| Clermont | first full-sized commercial steamboat |
| Peter Cooper | built a small, powerful locomotive called the Tom Thumb |
| Samuel F. B. Morse | perfected the telegraph |
| telegraph | a device that could send information over wires across great distances |
| Morse Code | different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet |
| Cyrus McCormick | developed a harvesting machine called the mechanical reaper which quickly and efficiently cut down wheat |
| Isaac Singer | made improvements to the sewing machine that was first invented by Elias Howe....allowed customers to purchase his machines on credit and provided service |
| cotton gin | a machine that removes seeds from short-staple cotton |
| planters | large-scale farmers who held more than 20 slaves |
| cotton belt | area of high cotton production |
| factors | crop brokers that managed the cotton trade |
| yeomen | owners of small farms |
| folktales | stories with a moral |
| spirituals | emotional Christian songs that blended African and European music |
| Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? | Great Britain |
| Important Cash Crops in the South | tobacco, flax and hemp |
| Important Food Crops in the South | Corn, rice, sweet potatoes, wheat and sugarcane |
| Slave Jobs | field workers, in Plantation homes as cooks or child care, skilled such as blacksmith', and carpentry |
| Slave living conditions | poor, dirt floor cabins, clothing- cheap and simple |
| examples of slave resistence | maintain own religious beliefs, worked slower to protest long hours and run aways |
