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Industrial Revolution was a long, slow process that completely changed the way goods were produced and where many people worked and lived.
Industrial Revolution
The movement of population from farms to cities.
Urbanization
A person who enters another country in order to settle there.
Immigrant
A person who invests a business to make profit.
Capitalist
A skill worker
Artisan
Association of workers in a specific trade, or line of workers, formed to gain higher wages and better working condition.
Trade Union.
A shortage, lack, or insufficient supply
Scarcity
The refusal by workers to do their jobs until their demands are met.
Strike
A political party of the 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant.
Know-Nothing-Party
Identical, machine-made parts for a tool or an instrument.
Interchangeable Parts
The supply, or amount of goods available to sell, depended
supply
A policy or practice that denies equal rights to certain groups of people.
Discrimination
Investing money
Capital
Young women who worked in the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution
Lowell Girls
An American who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born, white protestants.
Nativist