the economic changes of the late 1700s, when manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work
builder of the first water-powered textile mill in America
method of production using many workers and machines in one building
textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts
inventor of America's first widely successful steamboat
builder of America's first successful steam-powered locomotive
Samuel F. B. Morse
inventor of the telegraph
a device that separates kernels of wheat from their husks
a device that cuts grain
machine that made cleaning seeds from cotton faster
inventor of the cotton gin
leader of an 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia
religious folk songs
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