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| What is an assembly line? |
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| Each worker is responsible for one specific job |
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| What are interchangeable parts? |
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| Identical parts that make building and fixing things easier |
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| A boat powered by a steam engine |
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| A man-made waterway helping ships move between two larger bodies of water |
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| What is the Industrial Revolution? |
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| A time period where people started using factories and machines to make life easier |
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| What are the dangers of working in a factory? |
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| blood loss, loss of body parts, loss of hearing, working too many hours, black lung, breathing in cotton dust |
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| What entertainment did factory workers have? |
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| What was the average day like for a factory worker? |
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| They got up early, went to work, ate, and went to sleep. |
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| Why did children work in factories? |
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| Their families needed the money and they were paid less. |
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| What was once a factory town? |
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| What inventions revolutionized or changed transportation? |
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| steamboat, locomotive (train |
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| Why can assembly lines produce more stuff than working by hand can? |
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| By having more people helping to make the same item, you can make it faster. |
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| What area of land did Lewis and Clark map and travel through? |
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| Which reform movement did Horace Mann lead? |
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| Which reform movement did Frederick Douglass lead? |
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| Abolition (anti-slavery) Movement |
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| Which reform movement did Dorothea Dix lead? |
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| Which reform movement did Elizabeth Cady Stanton lead? |
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| Who were the Lowell Girls? |
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| Young women who moved from the local farm to Lowell to work in the textile (clothing) factories. |
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| What were the benefits of Lewis and Clark's trip? |
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| Made friends with the Native Americans, mapped the Louisiana Purchase, discovered new plants and animals |
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