Industrial Revolution Exam VOCAB Flashcards
1
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Industrial Revolution
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it was a long, slow process that completely changed how goods were produced, replaced manual labor and handmade tools with machines
2
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Child Labor
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children working for/in factories
3
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Lowell Girls
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young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts
4
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Inventions
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replaced handmade tools and manual labor with machines and factories
5
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Urbanization
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the movement of the population from farms to cities
6
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Interchangeable parts
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parts that can be changed easily without having to recreate the broken invention from scratch because there is much excess from assembly lines
7
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Cottonacracy
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people who had fifty or more slaves
