U.S. History Ch. 13 Call to Freedom
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- The Industrial Revolution
- A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production.
- textiles
- cloth
- Eli Whitney
- Created the first interchangeable parts, and also came up with mass production.
- interchangeable parts
- each part of products is made exactly the same
- mass production
- the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
- trade unions
- organizations created by workers to improve working conditions
- Transportation Revolution
- A rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation.
- Railroads
- Tom Thumb was the first American locomotive. 2,800 miles of tracks were laid by 1840, and 30,000 miles by 1860.
- telegraph
- a device that instantly sends messages through electric wires
- Morse code
- Combinations of dots and dashes represent each letter of teh alphabet according to a system developed by Samuel Morse.