Industrial Revolution and Reform Movements

Flashcards covering key vocabulary related to the Industrial Revolution and Reform Movements.

Industrial Revolution

The change from a farming society to one based on industry and manufacturing in the 1830-1840s.

Textile Mills

Factories that produce textiles (cloth).

Cotton Gin

Invention created by Eli Whitney that makes cleaning picked cotton easier than by hand.

Urbanization

The gradual movement of people living in rural areas to major cities.

Interchangeable Parts

Producing identical parts of the same machine piece in order to save time on repairs.

Steamboat

New kind of boat that works using the steam engine.

Erie Canal

Artificial waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Steam Engine

An engine to a vehicle that works using steam.

Transcontinental Railroad

System that connects all railroads from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Free Enterprise System

An economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control.

Push Factor

Factors or forces that drive people away from a place.

Pull Factor

Factors or forces that draw people to a new place.

Lowell Girls

Daughters of New England farmers who were recruited into working in textile mills in large cities.

Eli Whitney

Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

Erie Canal,

Artificial waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Second Great Awakening

Revival (rebirth) of religious ideas that led to several other reform movements.

Temperance Movement

Effort to make alcohol illegal due to its negative impact on society.

Abolitionist

A person who strongly favors getting rid of slavery.

Abolition

The movement to end slavery.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Suffragist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement.