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4. the efficient making of large numbers of identical items
6. He developed a new harvesting machine, the mechanical reaper.
10. the tools used to produce goods or to do work
11. This new tool helped businesses become more efficient by speeding up communication
12. groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
14. Inventor of the telegraph
17. He improved mass production of guns
19. nickname for a train
21. employ young, unmarried women from local farms
22. This allowed business owners to build their factories anywhere
24. Where much of the train tracks were located to move lumber and later coal
25. steamboat that traveled against the current on the Hudson River designed by Robert Fulton
26. Improved the sewing machine
28. reinforced the federal govt authority to regulate trade between states to end monopoly on waterways
29. American manufacturers expanded their production of goods during this time.

1. designed a full-sized commercial steamboat
2. She organized workers to help change conditions like a 10 hour work day
3. Hiring entire families to work in the mills. Sued by Slater.
5. a period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel
7. parts of a machine that are identical
8. Transformed the way goods were produced in the US. Started in England
9. small but powerful steam locomotive built by Peter Cooper
13. He memorized industrial designs and snuck them out of England to improve the textile industry in the US
15. Where most mills were located in the US
16. He designed the steel plow
18. The first industry to begin to use machines to manufacture goods?
20. primary product of New England states -RI, Mass, Conn., Maine
23. refusing to work to protest unfair working conditions until demand are met.
27. replaced wood as fuel for steam engines and created towns around the mines