Industries primarily concerned with the design or manufacture of clothing as well as the distribution and use of textiles.
An invention that drastically reduced the amount of time needed to separate cotton fibers from seeds. It could produce much more cotton than workers could by hand, making a significant impact to the way good were produced.
was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.
Also known as a market economy, an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments by citizens, owners, and corporations, and the making and distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
An invention that drastically reduced the amount of time needed to separate cotton fibers from seeds. It could produce much more cotton than workers could by hand, making a significant impact to the way good were produced.
A time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow made farming easier and faster. The production of food rose dramatically.
is a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labor.
Products were made so that parts could be changed from one item to another. If a part on a musket broke, you could replace it with the same part from another musket.
a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
Brought English factory technology to the United States. He built the first factory that could both spin and weave cotton, this hadn’t even ben done in England yet.
Spent time in London and learned how factory machines were built, he then took this new information back to The United States and built one a factory in Rhode Island. This new information helped bring on the Industrial Revolution.
is a set of economic ideas about how a country can get rich. Several European countries embraced this theory between the 16th and 18th centuries.
inventiveness – finding a way to get things done.
The period in which in the United States began to move from an agricultural system to an industrial system.
