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Production method that brought many workers and machines together into 1 building.
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Factory System
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Goods produced within the home mainly for personal use; surplus sold.
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Cottage Industry
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Production method that brought many workers and machines together into 1 building.
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Goods produced within the home mainly for personal use; surplus sold.
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Machine that used spike cylinder to remove seeds and other materials from raw cotton fibers invented by Eli Whitney
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Man-made channel that is dug across land, filled with water and used for transportation.
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Mechanical parts or pieces that are identical and can be used, or made by unskilled workers. Concept invented by Eli Whitney
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Person who invented the Cotton Gin and the use of interchangeable parts.
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Invented the steamboat. His first steamboat was named the Clermont
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Invented the mechanical reaper
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Invented the steel plow
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Brought the textile mill concept to the United States from Great Britain
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Invented the telegraph
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Young girls from New England farms who had sewing/weaving industry experience and were cheaper to hire than men. Lived in company-owned boardinghouses, received salary and simple education.
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During the period of the Industrial Revolution, new means of transportation included railroad, canals, and steamboat.
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Factory workers united in order to improve the conditions that they worked under
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Period of rapid growth due to new inventions that allowed products and goods to be made cheaper and faster rather than by hand at home
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Growth of cities due to movement of population from rural farm areas to factory towns.
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Canal in NY State that runs from the Hudson River to the Great Lakes; opened western regions to increased trade and settlement; cut transportation costs 90%.
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Led the most famous slave revolt in 1831
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Large pieces of land in Southern states owned by wealthy whites growing cash crops such as cotton or tobacco and requiring slave labor
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Owned and worked smaller farms in the Southern states. Usually if slaves were owned worked alongside them.
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Lived mainly in the south and worked as skilled artisans