| A | B |
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| Spinning Jenny | an 8-spindle spinner that James Hargreaves invented(named after his wife) |
| capitalist | a person who invests in a vusiness in order to make a profit |
| factory system | brought workers & machinery together in one place to produce goods |
| interchangeable parts | parts are exactly alike, could relace damaged parts on different machines, save $ |
| urbanization | movement of population from farms to the cities |
| Industrial Revolution | the use of power machines & the factory system to the textile industry |
| Samuel Slater | memorized the plans for the textile machines & came to the US with them |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | Boston merchant - found a way to improve British textile mills ,built factory in Waltham MA |
| "Lowell girls" | young women who worked in the Lowell, MA factories/lived in boarding houses/didnt complain -fear losing job(5am - 7pm) |
| Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin, 1793 & invented the inter-changeable parts in the making of guns |
| Samuel Morse | invented electric telegraph |
| "The Rocket" | steam powered locomotive built by George Stephenson |
| patent | license to make, use or sell new inventions |
| vulcanization | a way to process rubber that made it able to stand great heat or cold, invented by Charles Goodyear |
| Cyrus McCormick | Invented mechanical reaper, made it easier to farm |
| cotton gin | invented by Whitney to remove seeds from cotton |
| mass production | producing large numbers of an item quickly by using interchangeable parts |
| mercantilism | colonies exist to make the Mother country richer |
