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American Industrialization in the Northeast

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New England
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Mid-Atlantic
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland
steam power
Water changed to steam by boiling, used to generate mechanical power
Beverly Cotton Manufactory
first cotton mill built in America, in Beverly, Mass.
Slater Mill
first water-powered cotton spinning mill in North America
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providence
Rhode Island capital; birthplace of America's industrial revolution
Lowell
city in northeast Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River
Waltham-Lowell System
labor model in the United States, particularly in New England
textile
any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting
industrial revolution
1750-1850; major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and technology
second industrial revolution
Technological Revolution; second half of the 19th century
transportation
business of conveying people, goods, etc
electricity
science dealing with electric charges and currents
telephone
apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech
railroad
permanent road laid with rails on which locomotives and cars are run
telegraph
apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals
internal combustion engine
engine in which the process of combustion takes place within cylinders
iron
ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element
steel
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced
crude oil
petroleum as it comes from the ground, before refining
John D. Rockefeller
U.S. financier and philanthropist (1839-1937)
Thomas Edison
U.S. inventor, especially of electrical devices
Benjamin Franklin
American statesman, diplomat, author, scientist, and inventor
Nikola Tesla
U.S. physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor, born in Croatia
Westinghouse
U.S. inventor and manufacturer, an American manufacturing company
Henry Ford
revolutionized the automobile manufacturing; used assembly lines
Eli Whitney
U.S. manufacturer and inventor of the cotton gin

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