U.S. History
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| Industrial Revolution | A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production.
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| Samuel Slater | A skilled British mechanic, immigrated to U.S. after carefully memorizing designs of textile machines.
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| Eli Whitney | Inventor of interchangeable parts and credited for the cotton gin. Increased production.
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| Interchangeable Parts | Parts of machines that are identical--made machines easier to assemble and broken parts easier to replace.
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| Mass Production | The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
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| Transportation Revolution | A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation.
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| Gibbons vs. Ogden | A court case that reinforced the federal government's authority to regulate trade between the states ending monopolies of waterways.
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| Samuel F. B. Morse | Perfected the telegraph.
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| Strikes | Protest where workers refuse to work until employers meet their demands.
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| Trade Unions | Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions.
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| Lowell System | Based on water powered textile mills that employed young unmarried women from local farms.
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| Rhode Isand System | Strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.
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