| A | B |
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| Eli Whitney | Inventor of cotton cleaning machine |
| Cotton Gin | short for cotton “engine,” this machine cleaned cotton quickly, and efficiently. Eli Whitney made this machine |
| Spirituals | religious folk songs for enslaved Africans. |
| Nat Turner | A slave rebellion that believed that slaves should be free. |
| Samuel Slater | The owner of a spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. |
| Factory system | A system where man and machine work together in a factory |
| Lowell Mills | A group of textile factories run by Francis Cabot Lowell. |
| Interchangeable parts | Parts that are exactly alike. |
| Robert Fulton | The inventor of a steamboat that could move against the current, or against strong winds |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | The inventor of the telegraph |
