| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Industrial Revolution | The dramatic change from making goods by hand at home to making them by machine in factories |
| Samuel Slater | English engineer who built the first water powered spinning mill in the U.S. |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of the Cotton Gin in 1793 |
| Cotton Gin | A machine that separates cotton from its seeds, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 |
| Interchangable Parts | Parts of a product built to a standard size so that they can be easily replaced |
| Francis C. Lowell | Cloth factory owner who built the first power loom in the U.S. in 1813 |
| Lowell, Massachusetts | a factory town, the first planned town for workers in the U.S. |
| Cyrus McCormick | Inventor of the reaper in 1831 |
| Reaper | A machine that uses sharp blades to harvest grain |
| John Deere | Illinois blacksmith who invented the steel plow |
| National Road | A road built for pioneers in the first half of the 1800's. from Maryland to Mississippi River |
| Steam Engine | An engine powered by the energy produced from steam |
| Robert Fulton | Builder of the first successful steamboat, the "Clermont" in 1807 |
| DeWitt Clinton | New York governor who supported the building of the Erie Canal |
| Canal | A human built water way |
| Erie Canal | A human made waterway across New York State, connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie |
| Peter Cooper | New York merchant and inventor of a steam driven train, the "Tom Thumb" |
| Entrepreneur | A person who forms, runs, and takes risk for business |
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