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| Spinning Jenny | a machine that could spin several threads at once (James Hargreaves) |
| capitalist | a person who invests in a business in order to make a profit |
| factory system | brought workers & machinery together in one place, workers once worked at home now moved to the factory/power-driven machines |
| interchangeable parts | parts are exactly alike/they could be replace damaged parts on different machines(save time & money) |
| urbanization | movement of poputaltion from the farms to the cities |
| Industrial Revolution | machines replaced hand tools/new sources of power(water & steam) 1700's |
| Sam Slater | 1789, he memorized the design & plans for the textile machines & brought them to the US/started the first textile mill in RI 1790 |
| Frances C Lowell | Boston merchant who found a way to improve British textile mills /built a factory in Waltham, MA |
| "Lowell Girls" | young women who worked in the Lowell, MA factories/lived in boarding houses/worked 5am-7pm |
| Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin 1793/invented interchangeable parts for guns |
| Sam Morse | invented electric telegraph to send & receive messages quickly |
| "The Rocket" | steam-powered locomotive built by George Stephenson |
| patent | license to make, use of 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/easier to farm |
| cotton gin | invented by Whitney to remove seed from cotton |
| mass production | producing large numbers of an item quickly by using interchangeable parts |
