Chapter 10 - Set 1

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods

Developed interchangeable parts and invented the cotton gin

Method of producing goods that brought workers and machinery together in one place

Machine that separates cotton from its seeds

An artificial waterway

Population count taken every 10 years

Federally funded road to the West; didn't open until 1818; eventually ran from Maryland to Illinois

Invented by James Hargreaves in 1764.
It allowed spinners to spin multiple threads at a time.

Governor of NY who built the Erie Canal (1817)

Inventor of the first steamboat (The Clermont)

Money supplied by investors, banks, or owners of a business

Made spinning and weaving go into one factory. Created Lowell mills