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- Who was a skilled British mechanic that brought his knowledge of cloth-producing machines to the United States from Great Britain?
- In the South, a person who owned a plantation was known as a____________.
- Characteristics include: entrepreneurship, competition, private property, profit motive, consumer choice
- Which invention increased the demand for slaves?
- Who came up with the process of using interchangeable parts? This invention made it easier to mass produce products.
- What was the system that employed young, unmarried women to work in textile factories?
- Term for people moving from their farms and rural areas to the city.
- The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods is known as _________________.
- Who led a famous slave rebellion in Virginia?
- Why would Textile Factory workers often organize and go on strike? (What were the factory workers fighting for?)
- When workers refused to work until employers met their demands, it was called a ____________.
- Which transportation advancement reduced travel time, linked major cities, sped up communication, and tied communities together?
- What is the name of the compromise that settled the conflict that arose from Missouri's application for statehood?
- The period of Industrialization saw the beginning of____________: Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
- The cotton gin ____________ cotton at a faster rate.
- Name of the machine that could "clean" cotton, or separate the fibers from the seeds.
- Most mills were located in what region of the United States?
- state permitted by the missouri compromise to enter as a SLAVE state
- Who convinced Congress to agree to the Missouri Compromise? What year?
- Who invented a machine that could cut wheat more efficiently?