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textiles cloth technology tools used to produce goods or to do work interchangeable parts Process developed by Eli Whitney in the 1790s that called for making each vital part of a machine exactly the same mass production Efficient production of large numbers of identical goods trade union Workers' organizations that try to improve pay and working conditions. strikes Refusals of workers to perform their jobs until employers meet their demands. telegraph Machine invented by Samuel Morse in 1837 that uses pulses of electric current to send messages across long distances through wires. cotton gin device invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 to separate cotton plants' fibers from the seeds; revolutionized the cotton industry cotton belt region stretching from Georgia to east Texas where most U.S. cotton was produced during the mid - 1800's factors crop brokers who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers scientific agriculture use of scientific techniques to improve crop production yeomen small landowning farmers folktales oral stories that often provide a moral lesson spirituals emotional Christian songs sung by slaves inthe South that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed slaves' religious beliefs