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Industrial Revolution
key details from the period of the Industrial Revolution, from 1800-1910
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History
8th Grade
04/14/2014

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Steamboat inventor
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Robert Fulton
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Locomotive invented
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1801, by Robert Trevithick
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Cotton gin inventor
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Eli Whitney
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Favorite factory workers
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women and children, because they were cheaper and smaller
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Lowell system
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an example of cottage industries, where young women worked and lived
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Cottage industries
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small complexes where people lived and worked; came before the factory
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Effect of the cotton gin
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Made cotton more readily produced, increased the need for slave labor, increased revenue from cotton
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effect of steamboat
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allowed for travel upstream; increased transportation and decreased the cost of transportation
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Erie Canal
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makes great amounts of money; a good example of a canal that spurred other canals to be created
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railroad
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linked the East and the West; the most significant change in transportation
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dynamite
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allowed for tunnels to be blasted through to speed up transportation
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interchangeable parts
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allow for repair parts to made more easily; made available by machinery; make products cheaper; created by Eli Whitney
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Promontory Point
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the point at which railroads finally met in 1869, allowing for one route from East to West
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effect of the industrial revolution
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population growth; moving to the cities; long, difficult work hours away from the home; people move to the cities
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