| A | B |
|---|
| industrial revolution | a great change where machines took the place of many hand tools |
| textile | things made of cloth |
| spinning jenny | invention of the 1760's that allowed a person to spin many strands of thread at once |
| Richard Arkwright | inventor of the water frame |
| water frame | spinning machine powered by running water rather than human energy |
| factory system | brought workers and machinery together in one place |
| capitalists | people who invest money in a business to earn a profit |
| steam engine | reliable source of power that allowed factories to built in cities closer to the source of labor |
| Samuel Slater | Immigrated to the U.S. with his knowledge of British textile factories beginning the American Industrial Revolution |
| Moses Brown | joined with Samuel Slater to create a textile mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island based on Arkwright's spinning machine |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | created a new organization for mills bringing together spinning and weaving in one building |
| Lowell girls | young women that worked in mills and lived in boarding houses where they were provided with education |
| mass production | the rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical objects |
| Eli Whitney | devised a system of interchangeable parts in the 1790's |
| interchangeable parts | identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers |
