Lowell Mill Girls and Cotton Gin Vocabulary

tedious

• letting you earn a lot of money

• intellectual

• continues for a long time and is not interesting

• completing

lucrative

• letting you make a lot of money

• transfoming

• affected

• reshaped

harvest

• textile

• to gather crops from the fields

• tedious

• separating the seeds

inventor

• something that is invented

• someone who has invented something, or whose job is to invent things

• patent

• intellectual property

patent

• parent

• labor-intensive

• laws

• the right to make or sell a new invention or product that no one else is allowed to copy

intellectual property

• something which someone has invented or has the right to make or sell

• cotton engine

• challenges

• lucrative crops

mechanical

• steam engine

• using power from an engine or machine to do a particular kind of work

• technology

• production

overabundance

• something that can dance

• over the fence

• labor-intensive

• an amount of something that is more than what is needed or used

labor-intensive

• needing a lot of workers in order to produce something

• something that is very challenging

• mass-produced

plantation

• factories

• plants and animals

• large area of land in a hot country, where crops such as tea, cotton, and sugar are grown

• population