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| a long, slow process that completely changed the way goods were produced. |
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| money that is used for investment. |
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| brings workers and machinery together in one place to produce goods. |
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| invented by James Hargreaves. A machine that could spin several threads at once. |
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| Memorizes the British mills and brings his knoledge to America, which officially starts the industrial revolution in America. |
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| Pioneered by inventor Eli Whitney. It made all parts for a machine to a set of standard specifications so they could be mass produced. First used in the manufacture of firearms. |
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| Young girls hired from local farms to work in the textile(clothing) factories. |
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| The increase in the creation and size of cities. The movement of workers from the farms to the cities. |
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| Invents and patents the first of many machines used for farming. |
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| Inventor that built the Clermont, one of the first steam-powered boats in U.S. history. |
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| A man-made channel that connected the great lakes and the Hudson River. |
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| Device created during the industrial revolution that allowed for the process of removing seeds from cotton to be increased, thus increasing the profitability of using slave labor to grow cotton. |
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