Industrial Revolution Vocab.
A person who starts or invests in a business.
What is an Entrepreneur?
Samuel Morse invented this revolutionary device.
What is the telegraph?
An invention that increased the need for enslaved labor within the plantation system.
What is the cotton gin?
The idea that it is the right and duty of Americans to move west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Noah Webster is credited with creating this writing tool still in use today.
What is the American English Dictionary?
The movement of the population from the agricultural areas into the cities.
What is urbanization?
The inventor of this machine created a way to remove seeds from cotton.
Who is Eli Whitney?
An invention that made farming in the Great Plains possible.
What is the Steel Tipped Plow?
The most common mode of transportation for people moving west.
What is a covered wagon?
The term for the reasons people leave one country and move to another country.
What are push-pull factors?
Economic system that allows private citizens to own and operate businesses for profit.
What is Capitalism?
This inventor's invention revolutionized the textile industry and is credited with the creation of factories?
Who is James Hargreaves?
Prior to this invention, textile production was a cottage industry where clothing was made in the home.
What is the Spinning Jenny?
The city and state where most trips to the west began.
What is Independence, Missouri?
The Erie Canal connects these 2 bodies of water.
What is Lake Erie and the Hudson River?
A transformation from an agricultural based economy to a mechanized manufacturing economy.
What is Industrialization?
This inventor's iconic green and yellow farm equipment is still the most popular among American farmers today.
Who is John Deere?
Hello? Hello? Can you hear me now?
What is the telegraph?
This 1803 event opened the west for American settlers.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The author of the poem Paul Revere's Ride.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
The 17th & 18th century development that transformed global economies.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
All aboard! This inventor's invention connected Americans all over the country.
Who is George Stephenson?
Canals, railroads, toll roads, turnpikes...
What is Transportation?
The Lewis and Clark expedition began in Missouri and ended in this western territory.
What is the Oregon Territory?
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?