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Word | Definition |
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Lowel, Massachusetts | A river flowed through it, and there was a source of cheap and plentiful labor nearby. |
National Road | Streching from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinos. |
Erie Canal | On of the longest canals built in the early 1800's. |
Samuel Slater | Began his career as a skilled worker on cloth factory in Britain, helped bring the Industrial Revolution to the U.S. |
Francis Cabot Lowel | A Boston merchant that decided to brinf all the stadges in cloth-making together. |
Eli Whitney | Invented a machine that was called a cotton gin. |
Rober Fullton | An American engineer who developt a river boat powered by a steam engine. |
Industrial Revolution | Period of imprtant change from making goods by hand to making goods by hand machine in factory. |
Manufature | To make goods from raw materials. |
Technology | Use of scientific knowledge or new tools to make or do somthing. |
Cotton gin | Machine invented by Eli Whitney that cleaned the seeds fron cotton. |
Mechanical reaper | Machine invented by Cyrus McCormick that could harvest wheat quickly. |
Canal | Human made water way. |