Vocabulary words
The totality of the changes in economic and social organization that began about 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines, as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry.
Industrial revolution
He invented a spinning machine based on Arkwright’s
Samuel Slater
a wired system that communicates thru short signals (dots) and long signals (dashes).
The Telegraph
Also called the widespread starvation
Famine
Brings workers and machinery together in on place
Factory system
He invented a wired system that communicates thru short signals (dots) and long signals (dashes).
Samuel F.B Morse
Use the energy created by boiling water to push rods and wheels
Steam Engine
Is the denial of equal rights or equal treatment based on race, religion, culture, or nationality.
Discrimination
People who invest capital, or money, in a business to earn a profit.
Capitalists
Led the most famous slave revolt in 1831
Nat Turner
Identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers
Interchangeable parts
Used a spiked cylinder to remove seeds from fibers
Cotton gin
People who wanted to preserve the country for white, Americans-born Protestants
Nativists
The most famous early pioneer at the 1775
Daniel Boone
The rapid manufactured of large numbers of identical objects
Mass production
Religious folk songs that blended Biblical themes with the realities of slavery
Spirituals
Is the movement of people from urban areas to farms
Urbanization
Persuaded the Congress to adopt the Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay
Carried passengers between New York and Albany on the Hudson River
Fulton’s Steamboat
Is a channel that is dug across land and filled with water
Canal