Industrial Revolution

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A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production.

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Industrial Revolution

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A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel.

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Transportation Revolution

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cloth item

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textile

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parts of a machine that are identical

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interchangeable parts

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Tools used to produce items or to do work

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technology

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the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods

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mass production

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Samuel Slater strategy to hire large families and divide work into simple tasks

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Rhode Island System

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System that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill and employed young unmarried women from local farms.

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Lowell System

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Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions

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union

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Workers that refuse to work until employers meet their demands.

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strikes