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a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production.
What is the Industrial revolution?
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invented the water frame
Who is Richard Arkwright?
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What is Maine?
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in the late 1700s, the growth of cities, population increase, and an increase in trade, the world began to ______________________________.
What is industrialize?
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the production of large numbers of identical goods
What is mass production?
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cloth items
What is textile?
200
brought the first factory to Pawtucket, Rhode Island; responsible for bringing new textile machines to the United States
Who is Samuel Slater?
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What is Vermont?
200
In the mid 1800s, most of America's industry was located where?
What is the north?
200
Designer of the steam boat Clermont
Who is Robert Fulton?
300
Samuel Slater's strategy of hiring families of workers and dividing the work into simple tasks.
What is the Rhode Island Strategy?
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came up with the idea of using interchangeable parts which lead to the concept of mass production
Who is Eli Whitney?
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What is New Hampshire?
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due to technological developments during the industrial revolution, factories could be built almost anywhere in the United States when WHAT replaced water power?
What is steam power?
300
organization of workers who tried to improve working conditions and pay
What is the trade unions?
400
tools used to produce items or to do work
What is technology?
400
employed young girls and boarded them at the factory
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
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What is Massachusetts?
400
What were built closer to cities and transportation centers because it provided easier access to workers?
What are factories?
400
different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
What is Morse code?
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parts of a machine that are identical
What is interchangeable parts?
500
union president who fought to obtain a 10 hour workday
Who is Sarah Bagley?
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What is Connecticut?
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Textile manufacturers try to keep the costs of running a mill low by ________________________.
Who hired children and payed them very little?
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developed the mechanical reaper
Who is Cyrus McCormick?