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Industrial Review
Instustrial Revolution MKI
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| suffrage | right to vote |
| cottage industry | system where goods were made in individual homes by hand. quality good, but not enough goods were made |
| textiles | cloth goods |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of interchangeable parts and the cotton gin |
| War of 1812 | Great Britain blockaded American ports during this war making it impossible to import manufactured goods. This led to more American industry. |
| cotton gin | a machine that cleaned cotton and perpetuated slavery |
| Transportation Revolution | a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel |
| free enterprise | economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control |
| Robert Fulton | brought the steamboat to America; most associated with his ship the Clemont |
| Samuel Slater | person who built the first mill in America |
| Industrial Revolution | a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufactured and production |
| Factory System | bringing machines and people together under one roof |
| Gibbon v. Ogden | supreme court ruling that the federal government was more powerful than the state government |
| mass production | making large numbers of goods exactly the same |
| trade unions | a group that works to improve pay and working conditions for their members |
| Lowell System | the idea of hiring young, unmarried women from local farms to work in factories |
| strikes | workers refuse to work until their demands are met |
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