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| 1801, by Robert Trevithick |
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| women and children, because they were cheaper and smaller |
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| an example of cottage industries, where young women worked and lived |
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| small complexes where people lived and worked; came before the factory |
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| Made cotton more readily produced, increased the need for slave labor, increased revenue from cotton |
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| allowed for travel upstream; increased transportation and decreased the cost of transportation |
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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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| linked the East and the West; the most significant change in transportation |
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| allowed for tunnels to be blasted through to speed up transportation |
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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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| 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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