Vocabulary
Industrial Revolution
Technology of IR
Transportation Revolution and Factories
Everything Chapter 12
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This is the name given to a group of workers who unite to help bargain for better wages or working conditions.
What is a trade union?
100
Before steam and eventually coal power, factories needed to be put next to this for their source of power.
What is a water source (typically a river)?
100
This invention helped people communicate over long distances, not through their voices but a series of beeps/ other sounds.
What is a telegraph?
100
In order to help create more pathways for ships, these had to be created.
What are canals?
100
This group of Indians tried to adapt to white culture by creating a government similar to the US, while adopting other "white" characteristics
Who were the Cherokee?
200
This is the name for cloth items.
What are textiles?
200
The definition for this means that there is change on a massive scale, it is usually political or economically based.
What is a revolution?
200
This engine helped make travel faster on both trains and boats.
What is the Steam Engine?
200
This was the fasted way to travel during Industrial Revolution, but not always the easiest to do because of mountains and other geography issues.
What are railroads?
200
This forced removal killed off about 1/4th of the Cherokee and forced other Indians off their land as well.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
This is when people stop working to get their demands met.
What is a strike?
300
The Industrial Revolution meant that instead of making products at home, products were made in these...
What is a factory?
300
This is John Deere's first big development that helped with the Agricultural revolution.
What is the Steel Plow?
300
The Rhode Island System hired these for workers, in order to save some money.
Who are entire families?
300
This plan used Tariffs placed on foreign goods to raise money for internal improvements, such as roads and canals.
What is the American System?
400
Once elected to the Presidency, you can appoint any one of your supporters because of this system.
What is the Spoils System?
400
During the Industrial Revolution, people moved into cities to find jobs, because of improvements in this type of equipement.
What is farm/agriculture equipement?
400
Name one of Eli Whitney's great technology ideas or inventions.
What is the Cotton Gin or Interchangeable parts?
400
The Lowell System hired these workers, in order to save money.
Who are young single women?
400
To solve the issue of Slave and Free states, this plan was put in place. It basically cut the nation in half for future states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
This is a statement/belief issued by a group or person.
What is a Doctrine?
500
Interchangeable parts helped lead to this.
What is Mass Production (and eventually the assembly line)?
500
Cyrus McCormick got rich off of this Agricultural revolution technology.
What is the Mechanical Reaper?
500
Name three benefits that both railroads and steamboats provided to industry, as apposed to going by wagon.
What is faster, cheaper, and overall easier transportation? (I would also accept increase in profits for businesses)
500
This statement was issued as a warning to European nations, telling them to stay away from the newly independent countries in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
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