Industrial Revolution Vocabulary
This term means work done by machines rather than by hand.
What is mechanization?
Invented the steel-tipped plow that helped farmers break tough soil.
Who is John Deere?
Money a person makes after covering expenses.
What is profit?
This canal opened in 1825 and connected the Northeast to the Midwest.
What is the Erie Canal?
As factories grew, societies became less focused on farming.
What is becoming less agrarian?
The shift from making goods by hand to using machines in factories.
What is industrialization?
Developed the telegraph using dots and dashes.
Who is Samuel Morse?
Individuals owning money, land, or goods.
What is private property?
Faster transportation helped move people and goods during industrialization.
What is transportation?
People moved to cities for these jobs.
What are factory jobs?
A system where goods are produced in large quantities in one location.
What is the factory system?
This invention revolutionized the cotton industry in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
Buying and selling freely in a marketplace.
What is voluntary exchange?
This industry expanded transportation rapidly in the mid-1800s.
What is the railroad industry?
New machines increased this in factories.
What is efficiency?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
This invention improved communication over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
The economic law that determines prices based on how much people want and how much is available.
What is supply and demand?
Newspapers and railroads used this technology to spread news faster.
What is the telegraph?
Cities grew rapidly because of this process.
What is urbanization?
The production of one or a few goods or services.
What is specialization?
Using interchangeable parts made this possible.
What is faster mass production?
An economic theory that says businesses should operate with minimal government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
This railroad connected the eastern and western United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Name ONE major way technology changed life during the Industrial Revolution.
What is improved transportation / communication / manufacturing?
(accept any reasonable answer)