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To promote their products inventors of labor savoring devices did all except

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give stuff away for free

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Why was the telegraph significant?

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It enabled people to send news quickly coast to coast

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American manufactures disadvantages against British

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appealing to attract American workers

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What did French Alexis de Toequelle say

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contribution made it convenient

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What was the effect of distribution throughout America?

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technological advancements did not change the fact majority of industry based on New England

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Small expensive machine

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Spinning Jenny

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Who invented water frame,lowered cost of cotton, and increased speed of production

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Richard Arcwrite

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Why were changes of manufacturing needed in 1700s

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demanded increase

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Period of rapid growth using machines

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Industrial Revolution

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Water frame revolutionized production of cloth by

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shifting production from homes into mills

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American textile mills were built in the north because

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waterways and streams

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“I am persuaded…mass producing muskets”

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Whitney

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Fought to reduce workday to 10 hours

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Sarah G Bagley

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Why was coal better than wood

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produced more energy

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Transportation of Revolution affected farmers to

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Plow, cut trees, make more farmland in the Midwest

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What was the center of businesses and everything

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Urban Hubs

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Gibbons vs Ogden was a case about

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Interstate commerce

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Supreme Court decided..

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Gibbons license had priority over Ogden

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Steamboats traveled..

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well upstream

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What drove the pace of railroad production

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Faster transportation

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“Praise being the engineer for traveling faster”

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Charles

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Patriot “to be independent for comforts of life we must…ourselves”

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Thomas Jefferson

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How did War of 1812 help American Manufacturing

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encouraged Americans to buy domestic goods.South shipped to North

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Introduced idea of interchangeable parts

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Whitney

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Why did people buy clocks

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Factory hours and railroad schedules

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Textile manufactures kept mill cost low by

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Hiring kids

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hired put whole families to work

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Rhode Island System (slater)

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Why were strikes of unions unsuccessful

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Courts/police did not take their side

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groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions

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Trade union

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