Term
|
Definition
| The increase of a population moving from rural to urban (city) area. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| People are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Change from agricultural society to one based on industry, which began in Great Britain and spread to the U.S. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A machine that removed seeds from cotton invented by Eli Whitney |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Identical machine parts that could be quickly put together to make a complete product. By Eli Whitney. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A device that uses electric signals to transmit messages by a code over wire invented by Samuel Morse. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A process that used blasts of cold air to burn off impurities from heated iron to create steel. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Textile Mills are cloth factories. Francis Cabot Lowell invented a factory where all stages of cloth making were under one roof. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Invented to harvest grain much faster than a sickle. Increased agriculture production. Invented by Cyrus McCormick. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Developed by Robert Fulton. Powerful engine took days off a trip. |
|
|
