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Industrial Revolution
Sent and stopped electrical impulses, faster communication
Factories replaced domestic system.
Weavers and craftsmen worked at home.
Forced removal of Native Americans from east to west.
Cottage Industry/ Domestic System
Forced removal of Native Americans from east to west.
Sought to abolish slavery.
Individuals free to produce and sell whatever they wish.
Weavers and craftsmen worked at home.
Spinning Jenny
Sent and stopped electrical impulses, faster communication.
Machine that spun several threads to be spun at once.
Made steam power available for mechanical purposes.
Revolutionized land transportation. Revolutionized land transportation.
Steam Engine
Made steam power available for mechanical purposes.
Sent and stopped electrical impulses, faster communication.
Allowed several threads to be spun at once.
Weavers and craftsmen worked at home.
Samuel Slater
Built up American textile manufacturing industry in the U.S.
Father of the American Industrial Revolution.
Sought to abolish slavery.
Fought to provide free public elementary education.
Francis Cabot Lowell
Sought to abolish slavery.
"Father of the American Industrial Revolution"
Led the fight for better treatment of the mentally ill.
Built up textile manufacturing industry in the U.S.
Mass Production and Interchangeable Parts
Sent and stopped electrical impulses, faster communication.
The manufacture of goods in small quantities.
Manufacture of goods in large quantities used same design.
Independently developed and patented in the United States .
Free Enterprise System
Forced removal of Native Americans from east to west of the Mississippi River.
States ended property qualifications for voting.
A revival of of strong religious feelings.
Economic system characterized by freedom for consumers and producers.
Second Great Awakening
A device for sending and stopping electrical impulses.
The manufacture of goods in large quantities using standardized designs, so that all goods produced are the same.
A compromise on slavery in new territories.
A revival of strong religious feelings.
Cotton Gin
Made steam power available for mechanical purposes.
Allowed several threads to be spun at once.
Made it easier for unskilled slaves to remove seeds from cotton.
A device for sending and stopping electrical impulses.
Rural
Referring to cities or people who live in cities.
A geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.
The period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.
A new method, idea, product, etc.
Transcontinental Railroad
A new method, idea, product, etc.
A canal between the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo, completed in 1825.
A device for transmitting and receiving messages over long distances.
A train route across the United States, finished in 1869.
Telegraph
Income minus all expenses.
A track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run.
An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation.
A device for transmitting and receiving messages over long distances.
Sectional Differences
A factory for making cloth.
The grant of a property right to the inventor.
A policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants.
Regional divisions with economic differences due to their particular geography, population, work force, and type of industry.
Textile Mill
A factory for making cloth.
Any action that involves producing, distributing, or consuming products or services.
Economic system where people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want.
Factors that make people want to leave a place or escape from a situation.
Push/Pull Factors
Reasons that make people want to leave a place or escape from a situation.
The production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
Economic system where people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want.
A human settlement with high population density and infrastructure.
Economic Activity
Areas that have a low population density and small settlements.
Any action that involves producing, distributing, or consuming products or services.
The production of large quantities of a standardized product by a mechanical process.
A tool (or machine) used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting.
Innovation
Severe and prolonged hunger in a population of a region or country.
The sum of employed and unemployed persons.
A new method, idea, product, etc.
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
Labor Force
The sum of employed and unemployed persons.
The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
Any thing of value or of benefit to its owner, such as a factory and its machinery.
Food is one that is regularly consumed in large quantities as to form the basis of a traditional diet.
Capital
Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing.
A period of increased commercial activity within either a business, market, industry, or economy as a whole.
Any thing of value or of benefit to its owner, such as a factory and its machinery.
A severe and prolonged downturn in economic activity.