1. Chapter 11: National and Regional Growth Section 1: Early Industry and Inventions

2. Vocabulary threshing machine: a device that separates kernels of wheat from their husks mechanical reaper: a device that cuts grain factory system: method of production using many workers and machines in one building

3. The Industrial Revolution Manufacturing replaces farming as the main form of work Samuel Slater: brought British thread and cloth secrets to America – Children families – Low wages Lowell Mills (1814): Massachusetts cloth factory hires women and girls New England had the most factories because of the fast moving rivers and access to the ocean.

4. New Manufacturing Methods Eli Whitney: introduces interchangeable and identical parts for musket factory Robert Fulton: invents modern steamboat - 1807 Robert Fulton Peter Cooper: build first steam powered train - 1830 Samuel Morse: invents telegraph (and Morse Code) - 1837

5. Farming Imrovements Eli Whitney: cotton gin 1793 John Deere – lightweight metal plow – 1837 Andrew Meikle: threshing machine 1786 Cyrus McCormick: mechanical reaper 1831