Key Terms
The Industrial Revolution
The North Transformed
The Plantation South
Historic People
100
Rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical parts
What is Mass production
100
Children working in coal mines, textile factories, and steel factories to support their families
What is child labor
100
Growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization
100
Spiked cylinder used to remove seeds from cotton fibers.
What is a cotton gin
100
Founder of Lowell Factories
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell
200
People who invest in capital or money in business to earn a profit.
What is a capitalist
200
Invented the water frame
Who is Richard Arkwright
200
Device that used electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances.
What is a telegraph
200
Religious folk songs that are blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery
What is a spirituals
200
Led most famous slave rebellion, killed 60 whites
Who is Nat Turner
300
Brings workers and machinery together in one place
What is factory system
300
Visited England before 1812.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell
300
Denial of equal rights or equal treatment based on race, religion, culture or nationallity
What is discrimination
300
Cotton Kingdom
What is a group of people dominated by owners of large plantations.
300
Made first american steam boat
Who is Peter Cooper
400
laws that controlled every aspect of salve's lives
What is slave code
400
Identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers.
What is interchangeable parts
400
Wide spread starvation
What is widespread starvation
400
Revolutionized sugar industry
Who is Norbet Rillieux
400
Made telegraph and invented morse code
Who is Samuel Morse
500
Toll roads
What is a turnpike
500
When machines took over the work needed to be done using hand tools.
What is the industrial revolution
500
people who wanted to preserve the country for white, american born protestant
What is a nativist
500
Developed a seed-planting device that reduced the time a farmer spent sowing crop
Who is Henry Blair
500
Built first steam powered textile plant
Who is Richard Arkwright
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