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VA US 5.4

VA US Vocabulary 5.4

TermDefinition
turnpike a road that requires us to pay a toll
National Road a road built by the federal government in the early 1800s that extended from Maryland to Illinois
Erie Canal a canal completed in 1825 that connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River
Industrial Revolution a shift from manual labor to mechanized work that began in Great Britain during the 1700's and spread to the United States around 1800
Samuel Slater (1768-1835) English-born industrialist who used his knowledge of cotton manufacturing and textile machinery to build the nation's first water-powered textile mill in 1793 at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817) American businessman who developed the world's first textile mill in which all operations in converting raw cotton into finished cloth were performed within one facility.
"Lowell girls" young women who worked in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the early 1800's
interchangeable parts identical components that can be used in place of one another
Eli Whitney (1765-1825) American inventor best known for his invention of the cotton gin, which he patented in 1794, to automate the removal of seeds from raw cotton. Developed idea of mass-producing interchangeable parts.
Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872) developed the system of dots and dashes that became known throughout the world as the Morse Code.
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