Industrial Revolution - A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s., Industrialization - The development of industries for the machine production of goods., Urbanization - An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements., Mass Production - The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods., Factory System - The transition from making tools by hand to making them with machines. , Steam Power - The power source that made it possible to build factories away from running water., Eli Whitney - United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin., Cotton Gin - A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793., Lowell Mills - Textile mills located in a factory town in Massachusetts, employed mostly women between the ages of 16 and 35 known as Lowell Mill Girls., Samuel Slater - Father of the Factory System in America, escaped Britain with the memorized plans for the textile machinery, put into operation the first spinning cotton thread in 1791., Textile - A fabric made by weaving, used in making clothing., Robert Fulton - American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship., Steam Boat - A steam engine connected to two huge paddle wheels mounted on a raft- created by Robert Fulton., Bessemer Steel - The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.,

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