| A | B |
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| Industrial Revolution | a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s |
| textiles | cloth |
| Richard Arkwright | inventor |
| Samuel Slater | a skilled mechanic |
| technology | the tools used to produce goods or to do work |
| Eli Whitney | assembler of broken parts |
| interchangeable parts | a process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that called for making each part of a machine exactly the same |
| mass production | the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods |
| Rhode Island system | a system developed by Samuel Slater in the mid-1800s in which whole families were hired as textile workers and factory work was divided into simple tasks |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | a businessman |
| Lowell system | the use of waterpowered textile mills that employed young,unmarried women in the 1800s |
| trade unions | workers'organizations that try to improve working conditions |
| strike | the refusal of workers to perform their jobs until employers meet their demands |
| Sarah G. Bagley | a strong voice in the union |
| Transportation Revolution | the rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation |
| Robert Fulton | tested his first steamboat |
| Clermont | the first full-sized U.S.commercial steamboat;developed by Robert Fulton and tested en 1807 |
| Gibbons v.Ogden | did not have a license to operate in New York |
| Peter Cooper | built a small but powerful locomotive |
| Samuel F.B.Morse | perfected the telegraph |
| telegraph | a machine perfected by Samuel F.B.Morse in 1832 that uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires |
| Morse code | a system developed by Alfred Lewis Vail for the telegraph that used a certain combination of dots and dashes to represent each letter of the alphabet |
| John Deere | a blacksmith |
| Cyrus McCormick | harvesting machine |
| Isaac Singer | sewing machine |
