WORD
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|Economy |The production and use of goods and |Economy means | |
| |services in a community or a nation. | | |
| |This includes the wealth, resources, and | | |
| |employment of a community. | | |
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|Industrial Revolution |A period of rapid growth in |The Industrial Revolution was | |
| |manufacturing, industry, and cities in | | |
| |the 1800s in Britain and America that | | |
| |changed the way people worked and lived. | | |
|Capital |Money invested by capitalists (investor) |Capital is | |
| |to businesses to make a profit. | | |
| |Capitalists helped to build businesses | | |
| |and factories. | | |
|Interchangeable Parts |A process developed by Eli Whitney that |Interchangeable Parts | |
| |called for making each part of a machine | | |
| |exactly the same. The parts could then | | |
| |be used in any of the machines. | | |
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|Mass Production |The efficient production (creation) of a |Mass Production means | |
| |large number of identical goods. | | |
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|Urban |Relating to a city; Urbanization means |Urban means | |
| |the growth of cities. | | |
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|Agrarian |The support of an agricultural way of |Agrarian means | |
| |life, farming. | | |
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|Textiles |Cloth |Textiles were | |
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|Assembly Line |The making of a product is carried out by|An assembly line | |
| |workers or machines at a series of | | |
| |workstations. | | |
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|Lowell System |A factory system in New England in the |The Lowell System was | |
| |mid-1800s in which young, single women | | |
| |worked in water powered textile mills. | | |
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|Artisan |Skilled workers who were often displaced |An artisan | |
| |by factory workers. | | |
|Union |Organizations of workers that try to |A union | |
|(Trade Union) |improve pay and working conditions. | | |
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|Strike |The refusal of workers to perform their |A strike | |
| |jobs until their employers meet their | | |
| |demands for better pay or working | | |
| |conditions. | | |
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|Old Immigrants |An immigrant who arrived in the United |Old Immigrants were | |
| |States before the 1880s, usually Irish or| | |
| |German. | | |
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|Famine |Widespread starvation; in Ireland – the |Famine means | |
| |Potato Famine. | | |
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|New Immigrants |An immigrant who arrived in the United |New Immigrants were | |
| |States after 1880, usually from Eastern | | |
| |or Southern Europe. | | |
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|Nativists |Americans who opposed immigration because|Nativists were | |
| |they were suspicious of immigrants and | | |
| |feared losing their jobs. | | |
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|Know-Nothing Party |An anti-immigrant political party started|The Know-Nothing Party was | |
| |in the 1800s by nativists. They were | | |
| |called “Know Nothing” because they denied| | |
| |their political party existed. | | |
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|Tenements |Poorly built, over crowded houses in |Tenements were | |
| |cities where many immigrants lived. | | |
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|Ellis Island |An island off of New York City that |Ellis Island was | |
| |processed immigrants coming from Europe. | | |
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|Discrimination |Discrimination is a policy or attitude |Discrimination | |
| |that denies equal rights to certain | | |
| |groups of people. | | |
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|Cotton Gin |A machine invented by Eli Whitney to |The Cotton Gin was | |
| |remove seeds from cotton. It helped | | |
| |create the Cotton Boom in the South and | | |
| |increased the need for slaves. | | |
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|Cotton Belt |A region on the southern United States |The Cotton Belt was | |
| |that stretched from Texas to South | | |
| |Carolina where most of the nation’s | | |
| |cotton was grown. This led to a cotton | | |
| |boom. | | |
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|Cash Crop |A crop sold for money in the market. |Cash Crops were | |
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|Cottonocracy |Wealthy planters who made huge amounts of|The Cottonocracy was | |
|(Planters – owners of |money in the cotton belt and dominated | | |
|large farms) |southern life and government. | | |
|Yeoman Farmers |Owners of small farms. |Yeoman Farmers were | |
|Slave Codes |Laws passed in the South to control |Slave Codes were | |
| |slaves, especially after slave | | |
| |rebellions. | | |
|Civil Disobedience |Disobeying laws considered to be unjust |Civil Disobedience was | |
| |as a form of protest. | | |
|Nat Turner’s Rebellion |A rebellion in which Nat Turner led a |Nat Turner’s Rebellion was | |
| |group of slaves in Virginia in an | | |
| |unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and | | |
| |kill planter families. | | |
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|Underground Railroad |A network of people who helped thousands |The Underground Railroad was | |
| |of slaves escape to the North by | | |
| |providing transportation and hiding | | |
| |places. | | |
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|Reformers |People who work to correct injustices in |Reformers were | |
| |society. Reform means to change or | | |
| |improve. | | |
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|Second Great Awakening |A Christian religious movement in the |The Second Great Awakening was | |
| |1830s that stressed improving society and| | |
| |doing good works. | | |
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|Temperance Movement |A campaign against alcohol abuse that |The Temperance Movement | |
| |often led to abuse and the breakup of | | |
| |families. | | |
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|Abolition |An end to slavery. Abolitionism was the |Abolition means | |
| |movement to end slavery in the U.S. | | |
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|Seneca Falls Convention |The first national women’s rights meeting|The Seneca Falls Convention | |
| |in New York. This convention started the| | |
| |women’s movement in America and wrote the| | |
| |Declaration of Sentiments. | | |
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|Declaration of Sentiments |A statement signed by women’s rights |The Declaration of Sentiments | |
| |supporters at the Seneca Falls | | |
| |Convention. It detailed their beliefs | | |
| |about injustice against women. | | |
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| |Voting rights | | |
|Suffrage | | | |
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