The Antebellum North Vocabulary: EOC pg 120-130

"Father of the Factory System" in America; escaped Britain with the memorized plans for the textile machinery; put into operation the first spinning cotton thread in 1791.

• Samuel Slater
• Eli Whitney
• Robert Fulton
• Andrew Jackson

a type of cloth or woven fabric

• textiles
• iron works
• piston
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A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building

• Factory System
• compensation
• cottage industry
• involuntary

Locations where workers could live in company-owned housing and shop at company-owned stores. Many of these locations would grow into cities.

• Factory Towns
• reform
• Second Great Awakening
• Abolition

The development of industries for the machine production of goods.

• Industrialization
• compensation
• kerosene
• Abolition

Developed in the textile mills of Massachusetts, in the 1820s, in these factories as much machinery as possible was used, so that few skilled workers were needed in the process, and the workers were almost all single young farm women, who worked for a few years and then returned home to be housewives.

• The Lowell Mills
• Social Reform Movement
• Temperance mills
• emancipation

1. workers did not need to be skilled craftsmen2. the manufacturing process was much quicker than making unique parts3. items could be easily and quickly repaired by switching out parts

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• loom
• Abolitionist
• revolutionize

Movement of people from rural areas to cities

• Urbanization
• Assimilation
• revolution
• Ruralization

existing or occurring at the beginning; at first

• initial
• blight
• urban
• perplexity

in, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town.

• urban
• piston
• rural
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