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- The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by
- Eli Whitney.
- The secrets of the British textile industry made it possible to build the first successful water-powered textile mill in America.
- Samuel Slater
- Workers and machines came together under one roof, usually near a source of water to power the machines.
- factory system
- The songs in which enslaved people of the South expressed their religious beliefs or passed coded messages were called
- spirituals.
- For what is Nat Turner best known?
- leading an armed revolt of some 70 slaves
- Machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main source of work.
- Industrial Revolution
- How did the cotton gin change the South?
- It encouraged Southerners to grow more cotton.
- -The steamboat improved transportation by carrying people and goods faster, even against a river current or a strong wind.
- Robert Fulton
- The telegraph allowed a person to communicate almost instantly with other people in distant places.
- Samuel F.B. Morse
- Young girls lived in company-owned boardinghouses and worked in factories for 121/2 hours a day.
- Lowell