Years of Growth & Expansion
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Created by:
scarvel on May 24, 2010
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SRC Middle School Resource Room, SRC 7th Grade
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Industrial Revolution | producing goods with machines rather than by hand |
| spinning jenny | machine that could spin several threads at once |
| capital | money |
| capitalist | person who invests in a business in order to make money |
| factory system | bringing workers and machinery together in one place to produce goods |
| interchangeable parts | identical, machine-made parts for a tool or instrument |
| urbanization | movement of people from farms to cities |
| turnpike | toll road |
| Clermont | first steamboat, invented by Fulton |
| intervention | direct involvement |
| Trail of Tears | long, sorrowful journey of the Cherokee from GA |
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