Regional Development & Interactions Vocabulary

a period of rapid growth in the use of machines and manufacturing

• textiles

• spinning jenny

• interchangeable parts

• Industrial Revolution

machine that allowed a person to spin many threads at once

• cotton gin

• spinning jenny

• steamboat

• textile mill

identical parts of a tool or instrument that are made by a machine

• cotton gin

• textiles

• Industrial Revolution

• interchangeable parts

an early form of electronic communication, allowed people to communicate rapidly across long distances

• telegraph

• cotton gin

• interchangeable parts

• steamboats

cloth or woven fabric

• cotton gin

• textiles

• spinning jenny

• textile mill

the process of developing machine production of goods

• industrialization

• sectionalism

• factories

• spinning jenny

to produce in quantity usually by machinery

• Assembly Line

• Bourgeoisie

• Laissez Faire

• Mass Production

Person who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise

• Adam Smith

• Entrepreneur

• Karl Marx

• Socialism

Englishman who invented the spinning frame in 1769

• Robert Fulton

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Richard Arkwright

British mechanic who brought the knowledge of British textile machines to the United States, which led to the development of American textile mills

• Robert Fulton

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Richard Arkwright