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an expressway, especially one on which a toll is charged. | Turnpike |
the "Father of the American Factory System";he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use | Samuel Slater |
were young female workers who came to work in industrial corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, | Lowell Girl |
owned textile factories in Massachusetts, brought the Industrial Revolution to the U.S. | Francis Cabot Lowell |
creater of the Cotton Gin and interchangable parts | Eli Whitney |
U.S. inventor and manufacturer of farm implements; creater of the steel plow | John Deere |
creater of the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
identical components that can be substituted one for another | Interchangeable Parts |
machine for separating cotton from its seed | Cotton Gin |
changes in manufacturing and transportation that began with fewer things being made by hand but instead made using machines in larger-scale factories. | Industrial Revolution |
American painter and inventor who, independent of similar efforts in Europe, developed an electric telegraph (1832–35). In 1838 he developed the Morse Code. | Samuel Morse |
a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection | Telegraph |
first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, the 620-mile (1,000 km) road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers | National Road |
creater of the Steam Boat | Robert Fulton |
artificial waterway built across New York state in the early nineteenth century, linking Lake Erie and the Hudson River | Erie Canal |
the period where steam power, railroads, canals, roads, and bridges emerged as new forms of transportation | Transportation Revolution |
an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. | Labor Union |
was designed so that every step of the manufacturing process was done under one roof and the work was performed by young adult women instead of children or young men. | Lowell Mill System- |
growth of cities | Urbanization- |