chapter 13 section 1 fill in the blank Flashcards
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the industrial revolution began in great Britain because that country had the necessary combination of land, capital, and labor, or what economists call the
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factors of production
2
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richard Arkwright invented a way to drive a spinning machine water power, which resulted in the beginning of the modern ____
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factory system
3
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Eli Whitney’s ________ allowed the southern united states to become the cotton producing center of the world
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cotton gin
4
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american engineer ___________ built the first profitable steamboat, the Clermont
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Robert Fulton
5
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in 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse put electricity to practical use by inventing the ______, which revolutionized communications
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telegraph
