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people began to use machines instead of hand tools. It changed the way people lives, traveled, and worked.

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National Road was important it led settlers and goods from the east to new states in the western parts of the U.S.

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1. Traveling on canals,boats,or barges could carry larger loads at less cost than wagons on land.
2. The most important Canal was to Erie Canal of NY
3. It started along the Hudson River and ended in the Erie river.
4. investors were asked to buy stock in the Erie CAnal
5.Irish immigrants came to US to build the canal.
6. They were paid more here than in Ireland.
7. It made  NYC a leading city of trade in the U.S.
8.In 1825,  the Erie Canal opened
9. It set off a huge canal building boom

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1.Canal building lasted only a short time in the U.S
2. Steamboats soon became th main form of travel on water
3. Railroads the way people and goods moved on land
4. The steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen,a british inventor in the 1700s
5. The steam engine boiled water to power it moving parts.
6. Robert Fulton used the steam engine to power boats. 7.The Clermont, Fulton's steamboat, went up the Hudson R. to Albany
8. Steam engines were used to power locomoyives or railroads.
9. Railroads made it easier and cheaper to move heavy loads of raw mareials and manufactured goods to all regions of the US
10. As railroads grew, so did manufacturing in the US.

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Changing Times - Railroads & Canals I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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1. Britain, th eonly country in th eworld that had machines to weave textiles.

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A bear comes to their cabin and eats the porridge. Lyddie,Charles, Rachel,Agnes,And her mother, Mattie hide in the loft. They are so relieved from it that they laugh hysterically.

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She takes charge to prove that she can do things herself

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Lyddie is terrified to learn that she will be separated from her family Baker's mill is where Charles will be going

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lYDDIE AND cHARLES HAVE TO SAY GOOD-BYE tHEIR MOM HAS TO MAKE A TOUGH DECISION WHETHER OR NOT THEY KEEP THE FARM. Charles doesn't think it'll be that bad being a miller. The family is in debt Quaker Stevens is wealthy and will look after Charles

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Lyddie meets a lady wearing a silk dress who works at lowell. She will earn 2 $ a week and can be independent there, according to her. Lyddie thinks she's also lying when she says she'd be good there.

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There was two frogs in charles story. One keeps on kicking when they're drowned in a butter churn, makes butter and gets out. Lyddie feels like she is the kicking frog who has to keep on working.

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Lyddie no longer carded or spun her own wool from her own sheep. It was sent to NAshua where it could be done in a gigantic water powered mill. Western railroads were bringing such cheap wool to the Lowell factories that a new england sheep farmer could no longer complete. It was whay her father had said, but his flock was small.

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Lyddie overhears,Otis and Enoch two employed workers talking about slave catchers.

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Lyddie is worried about harles and her father She wonders if he's dead.

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Triphena tells Lyddie she can visit her brother at BAker's Mill. Whe n Lyddie arrives Charles. She wouldn't be envious of CharlieCharlie belonged to her and not them. She didn't want to embarras
Charlie so she goes to her cabin

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Industrial Revolution for Kids | A simple yet comprehensive overview

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Lyddie discovers in  her cabin a stranger slave. She has a conversation with him and he's a fugitive. She wants to gto to Lowell and get paid more  to pay off their debts. and reunite her family

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Lyddie fells awesreuck when she arrives at Lowell

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Lyddie fells awesreuck

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Lyddie fells awesreuck

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Creation What a noise! Clatter and Clack great shuddering moans, groans cracks and rattles

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First, Lyddie meets Mr.MArdsen , the overseer who assigns her a loom. Diana, an experienced factory worker, will teach her how to use the loom. Diana explains to her the kiss of death where she puts her mouth on the shuttle hole and sucked out the weft thread. When Lyddie goes to Diana's boarding house she finds out that Dianais about Sarah BAgley, Amelia Sargeant, MAry Emerson and Huldah Stone who were Female Lavbor Reform

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It's Lyddie's first day of work. She has trouble breathing . She listens to Betsy read to her. She can't get air the windows are shut. Mr.MArdsen is watching her. her loom has stalled and has a broken warp thread. When the bell rings at quitting time, Lyddie is not hungry for the large amounts of food on the table.

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While Lyddie is working at her three looms, she begins to learn to read by herself on copied pages of Oliver Twist to impress Charlie. She wants to learn to read because it helps her to escape the horrors of the workroom such as long hours,dirt and dustShe spaends money on a book. Diana goss tells her about the 10 hour thingamabob on the 4th of july. She doesn't want to go or sign the petition if it would mean losing her job

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Lyddie takes the money from Triphena to take a stagecoach to Lowell. Lyddie works for a week at a different tavern to earn more money. When she takes the stagecoach, it gets stuck in muddy ruts in the dirt road. She gets fed up with the other riders who don't help. and she pulls the wheels out of the mud. She gats fed up withe them cause they don't look down at her. Then she finds them to be useless as she is the one who gets the stagecoach out of the mud.The stagecoach driver, in return takes her to his sister's boarding house in LOwell. "I've brought you a little chip of Vermont Granite."

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Lyddie is worried about petitions and turnouts. She knew Mr. Mardsden was watching the girls stop by Diana's looms. Lyddie was worried about the money in order to pay her debts. She writes to her mother  along with one dollar. Lyddie get hit with by a shuttle in the head. She doesn't rememeber how it happened. Diana got there at once using a handkerchief to stop the blood. MArdsden appears and tells Diana to take a long walk off a short pier. She doesn't want to pay for a doctor because it costs money. the doctor was the man walking the man walking with Diana

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Lyddie was able to keep pace with the speed of the machines. She thinks of the machines of as clumsy bears. At the LAwrence Corporation a girl had slipped and broke her neck. A man was run over. At concord a girl got ther hair stuck in the machinery vb

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Lyddie comes back to work quickly after she was hit with the shuttle. There was no doctor's bill to pay for. Betsy has come down with a terrible cough. She coughs a lot and can't stop. Lyddie becomes concerned about her. Lyddie didn't realize Betsy had been like this. Amelia makes  Betsy promise to see a doctor. Amelia leaves the factory because her father found her a better job. Mr.MArdsden tells her she will have to help a new girl, who might slow her down. He has confidence in her because "you're my prize girl here" pg.109 He makes her feel uncomfortable or awkward again when he touches her shoulder.. "I'm not your girl. I'm not anybody's girl but my own"pg.109

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Lyddie ignores " the rusty saw hacking through her own chest."pg.107

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Charlie comes to visit Lyddieand has news about ncle Judah and the Phinney's HE now is a apprentice

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Lyddie learns that Diana is going to have a baby.Diana can't can't marry Dr.Craven becuase divorce isn't allowed back then. So the rumor around the mill is that Diana has been dismissed with an honorable charge, just before she could have been blacklisted.

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bridgid has 2 looms and will start her third. Lyddie is happier when Mr. MArdsden isn't breathing on her shoulder. She bought the bible, and an autobiography by Frederick douglass, a runaway slave who became free. Lyddie was strong again, and felt relief not ti carry the "burden of debt and the welfare of other people(pg.156)"
Mr. MArdsden has Bridgid and Lyddie dumps water and runs away.MAMA dies