Chapter 8 Industrial Expansion and Reform Flashcards
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Automate
To convert from manual to mechanical. ex. Needle and thread to a sewing machine.
Interchangeable Parts
Parts of a product manufactured to be same size and shape used for mass production.
Rhode Island System
was a system for manufacturing textiles, or cloth, in factories.
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin
Industrialization
The process of moving from agriculture society (handmade) to a manufactured society.
Francis Cabot Lowell
An industrialist who changed the way textiles (cloth) were made in US.
Industrial Revolution
Period of change for the economy and society all over the world
Cyrus McCormick
Inventor of mechanical reaper
Robert Fulton
Inventor and engineer that ran steamboats. He recommended building the Erie Canal and a steam warship
Samuel Morse
Inventor who developed electric telegraph and invented Morse Code.
Lowell System
Workforce in factories made up of single women from nearby farms, known as the “Lowell Girls”
Market Revolution
Economic transition in the 19th century in U.S. and Europe goods were traded across greater distances to reach more consumers in larger markets.
Isaac M Singer
Improved the sewing machine. (Did not invent the sewing maching)
Elias Howe
Invented the sewing machine
Erie Canal
Completed in 1825 after 8 years of construction; it links the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean; lowered costs of shipping goods
Samuel Slater
Opened 1st textile mill factory in the U.S.
Telegraph
Invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail, this machine sends signals transmitted along wire by electric impulses.
Morse Code
Printout of telegraph made of dots and dashes
John Deere
Invented steel plows and later bulldozers, forklifts, chainsaws and tractors
Cotton Gin
Machine invented by Eli Whitney that pulled cotton plants through a set of wire teeth which separated the seeds from the cotton fibers. This sped up the cleaning process.
Socialism
A political and economic system in which most property and resources are publicly owned or controlled;profits are divided among all people; example: Government provides health care, housing, education or guaranteed employment
Ethnic Group
Cultural concept refers to shared cultural or national background that a group of people have in common
Irish-Potato Famine
Disease attached to potato plants and killed the harvest; Ireland suffered and around a million people died. Two million survivors went to Canada and the U.S.
Nativism
Favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants