05 Unit 5 Week #2 Vocabulary: The Industrial Revolution

Era in which goods went from being made in homes by hand to being made in factories by machines

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Age of Jackson

• Agrarian (society)

• The New Republic

Method of producing goods that brought workers and machinery together under one roof to increase efficiency

• The Factory System

• Cottage Industry (Domestic System)

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Urban (Urbanization)

The application of scientific discoveries to practical uses especially in industry

• Innovation

• Industrialization

• Technology

• Efficient

Period when the economy changed from being based on agriculture to one based on industry

• Efficient

• Technology

• Industrialization

• Innovation

Improvements in technology which allowed for efficient (quicker, faster, cheaper) means of production.

• Innovation

• Technology

• Efficient

• Industrialization

Able to accomplish something with the least waste of time and effort.

• Industrialization

• Agrarian (society)

• Efficient

• Innovation

A culture or community in which the economy relies heavily on agricultural (farming) production

• Cottage Industry (Domestic System

• Urban (Urbanization)

• Rural

• Agrarian (society)

Usually small-scale industry carried on at home by family members using their own equipment

• Agrarian (society)

• Cottage Industry (Domestic System)

• Industrialization

• The Factory System

Invented cotton gin and interchangeable parts; cotton became main crop of the South; King Cotton

• Francis Cabot Lowell

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Henry Bessemer

A machine invented by Eli Whitney that quickly removed seeds from cotton fiber and revolutionized the cotton industry increasing the demand for slaves and production of cotton

• Telegraph

• Mechanical Reaper

• Cotton Gin

• Steel Plow