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What is a Profit?
The money a company makes after paying its expenses.
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What is a Musket?
A wooden long ranged rifle.
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Cotton Textiles?
What is Cloth
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What is The Cotton Gin?
Invented by Eli Whitney in 1792, it helped greatly increase the Cotton Production.
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What is The Industrial Revolution?
The period when there was a shift from making goods by hand to machinery.
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Samuel Slater?
He was a Skilled Machanic from Great Britain
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What is a Scythe?
A hand tool that has a long curved blade.
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What is Mass Production?
Interchangeable parts that are the exact same size and shape.
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Francis Cabot?
The man that learned how to make Weaving .Machines
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What is the Sewing Machine?
A Machine used for Making cloth Clothes.
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What is a Factory?
A place where products are mass produced by hourly workers .
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A Mill?
A Machine for spinning and weaving fibers in to cloth together in one Factory.
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What is the Electric Telegraph?
A Machine that sent meassages to others over wires.
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Who is Eli Whitney?
The Man hired by the United States Government to make thousands of guns and the creator of the musket.
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"Mill Girls?"
Women that worked Ten or more hours a day To run the machines!
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