Lesson One
The change from manual production to machine-powered factory production that started in England in the late 18th century and spread to other places and brough a transformation in economy, society, and technology.
Industrial Revolution
A skilled worker.
Artisan
To prepare and work soil for planting and growing crops.
Cultivate
An organization in the early 1800s that proposed to end slavery by helping African Americans move to Africa.
American Colonization Society
An organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society.
Social reform
Money invested in a business venture.
Capital
Association of workers in a specific trade, or line of work, formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions.
Trade union
A period of rapid economic growth.
Boom
A person who wanted to end slavery.
Abolitionist
A widespread religious movement in the United States in the early 1800s.
Second Great Awakening
The movement of population from farms to cities
Urbanization
A severe food shortage.
A name for the wealthy planters who made their money from cotton in the mid-1800s.
A network of abolitionists who secretly helped African Americans to escape to freedom.
Underground Railroad
A shortage, lack, or insufficient supply.
Scarcity
A policy or practice that denies equal rights to certain groups of people.
Discrimination
Slave code
The refusal to obey unjust laws using non-violent means.
Civil disobedience
An 1848 meeting at which activist called for equal rights for women, often seen as the birthplace of the women's rights movement.
Seneca Falls Convention
Identical, machine-made parts for a tool of an instrument.
Interchangeable parts
A person who enters another country in order to settle there.
Immigrant
A crop sold for money at market.
Cash Crop
The views held by people, in general.
Public opinion
Lesson Six Term: One of a group of New England writers and thinkers who believed that the most important truths transcended, or went beyond, human reason.
Transcendentalist