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Mr. Benitiz chapter 11
the industrial revolution
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8th Grade
02/25/2009

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manufactured goods
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things made by machine to be sold
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industrial revolution
Definition
a period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing
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textiles
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cloth items
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Richard Arkwright
Definition
an englishman who invented the water frame
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Samual Slater
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a british mechanic who came to the US with designs for the textile mill
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mill(context)
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factory
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Eli Whitney
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he invented interchangeable parts, mass produced guns
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interchangeable parts
Definition
pieces of manufactured goods that can be alternated
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mass productions
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the efficient production of a large number of identical goods
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division of labor
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work divided by many people
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profits
Definition
income after all costs have been subtracted
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fabricate
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to make by assembling parts
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free trade
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the buying and selling of goods without taxes or tariffs
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apprentices
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young men who worked for several years to learn a trade
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child labor
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full time employment for children under the age of 16
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Rhode Island System
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Hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
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company store
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a place to buy goods- owned by the manufacturer worked for
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Francis Babot Lowell
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owned water powered textile mills and employed young unmarried females from his boardinghouse
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Lowell
Definition
a mill that could both spin and weve worked by young women
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loom
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a machine used for weaving thread or yarn into cloth
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trade unions
Definition
groups that try and improve pay and working conditions
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strike
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when workers refuse to work until employers meet their demands
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Sarah G. Bagley
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early organizer founded the Lowell female Labor Reform
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reform
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a correction of faults or evils
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concrete
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specific or real
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transportation revolution
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a period of rapid growth in the spread and convenience of travel due to methods
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rapidly
Definition
swift fast; in a quick manner
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Robert Fulton
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he invented the steamboat
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Clermont
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the first full sized comercial sized steamboat
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Gibbons vs. Ogden
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this gave the government the right to regulate trade between states
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Peter Cooper
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he built a small steam powered locomotive
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locomotive
Definition
an engine that can move under its own power
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surged
Definition
a sudden increase or rush
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freight
Definition
transported goods or cargo
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raw materials
Definition
unprocessed natural resources such as minerals metals or oils
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smelting process
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a way to sperate impurities from metals
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deforestation
Definition
land cleared of trees and natural vegetation
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transportation hub
Definition
the center of activity for moving passengers or goods
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innovations
Definition
new methods practices or devices
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Samual F. B. Morse
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invented the telegraph
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telegraph
Definition
aa device that sends messages over wires across long distances
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pulses
Definition
brief surges of electrical current
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telegraph key
Definition
a bar that controls electric current
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morse code
Definition
different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet
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industries
Definition
branches of manufacturing
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John Deere
Definition
invented the steel plow
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Cyrus McCormick
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invented the mechanical reaper
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reaper
Definition
a machine that cuts wheat
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wants
Definition
desires
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Isaac Singer
Definition
he improved the mechanical sewing machine of Elias Howe
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