| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Industrial Revolution | a change in production from hand to machine; home to factory; barter to money |
| Samuel Slater | brought the idea of the factory from Great Britain with his photographic memory |
| spinning jenny | a machine that could spin several threads at one |
| urbanization | movement to the cities that occurred as factories grew |
| interchangeable parts | invented by Eli Whitney; parts in an item could be used in other items because they were the same |
| Eli Whitney | created the cotton gin and interchangeable parts |
| Elias Howe | invented the sewing machine |
| John Deere | invented the steel plow |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the mechanical reaper |
| Samuel Morse | invented telegraph |
| telegraph | new form of communication that sent electrical messages through a series of dots and dashes |
| artisan | a skilled worker (blacksmith etc.) |
| trade union | a group of skilled workers who worked to get better wages and conditions in the factories |
| nativist | against immigration; were angry that immigrants took jobs for low pay |
| Know-Nothing Party | political party whose main platform was to restrict immigration |
| Lowell Girls | young women who worked at the Lowell mills in Massachusetts |
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