Steel Plow - Made it easier to clear fields., Mechanical Reaper - Made it easier to harvest wheat. , Cotton Gin - Helped remove the seeds from cotton., Interchangeable Parts - Identical machine made parts., Erie Canal - Man-made waterway which made it more efficient to transport goods., Eli Whitney - Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts., Steamboat - Improved transportation by allowing movement upstream., Telegraph - Made it easier to communicate across long distances., Samuel Morse - Inventor of the telegraph., Robert Fulton - Inventor of the steamboat., Textile Mill - Factory that produces cloth., Mass Production - Production of large quantities of one manufactured good., Causes of Industrialization - Inventions, War of 1812, improvements in transportation, and factories., Effects of Industrialization - Urbanization, mass production, and manufactured goods were produced more efficiently., Urbanization - Movement of people from farms to cities., Effects of Urbanization - Overcrowding, disease, crime, and poverty., Northeast - Location of where the Industrial Revolution occurred in the U.S., Free Enterprise - Economic system with little government interference; the availability of goods is determined by supply and demand., Industrial Revolution - Change in how things were made; goods were produced by machines in factories., Factory System - Idea introduced by Francis Cabbot Lowell; cloth was produced from start to finish in one factory.,

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