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Chill Vocab
History Darling
Question | Answer |
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Samuel Slater | Built the first successful water-powered textile mill in America. |
Industrial Revolution | Factory machines replaced hand tools and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work. |
Factory system | Brought many workers and machines together under the same roof. |
Lowell mills | Textile mills in the village, employed farm girls who lived in company-owned boardinghouses. |
Interchangeable parts | Parts that are exactly alike. |
Robert Fulton | Invented steamboat that could move against the current or a strong wind. |
Samuel F. B. Morse | Created the Telegraph. Set pulses out that could be translated into messages. |
Eli Whitney | Invented a machine for cleaning cotton in 1793. |
Cotton gin | (Short for "engine") made the cotton cleaning process far more efficient. |
Spirituals | Enslaved folk expressed their religious beliefs in spirituals, religious folk song. Often contained coded messages for escape or unexpected return. |
Nat Turner | The most famous rebellion was lead by Nat Turner in Virginia 1831. |