Unit 9 - Industrialization Vocabulary Terms

The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation

• Transportation Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• American Revolution

• Technology Revolution

A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793

• Morse Code

• Telegraph

• Cotton Candy

• Cotton Gin

Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing

• Mass Production

• Interchangeable Parts

• Twins

• Spare Parts

Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply

• Small Production

• Assembly

• Mass Production

• Morse Code

An economic system based o private ownership of capital

• Socialism

• Industrialism

• Communism

• Capitalism

A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation

• Industrial Revolution

• Transportation Revolution

• American Revolution

• Lowell System

A device for rapid, long-distance transmission of information over an electric wire. It was introduced in England and North America in the 1830s and and 1840s.

• John Deere

• Morse Code

• Telegraph

• Cotton Gin

Different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet

• Cotton Gin

• Telegraph

• Morse Code

• John Deere

Farmer who owns a small farm

• Yeoman

• Yahweh

• Captain

• Ranch Hand

Dormitories for young women where they were cared for, fed, and sheltered in return for cheap labor, mill tows, homes for workers to live in around the mills

• Lowell System

• Morse Code

• Apartments

• Condominiums