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Industrial Revolution
American Industrial Revolution
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Social Studies
8th Grade
03/02/2015

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