Unit 3 Test Prep- Industrial Revolution and Lead Up to Civil War

Discrimination

• Treating certain groups of people unfairly

• Identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers

• Process of making many exact copies of a single product

Corduroy Road

• toll road

• Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.

• a road made of sawed-off logs laid side by side

Interchangeable Parts

• a road made of sawed-off logs laid side by side

• Identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers

• person opposed to immigration

Slave Codes

• Treating certain groups of people unfairly

• person opposed to immigration

• Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights

Cotton Gin

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

• Movement of people from rural areas to cities

• go in search of or hunt for

Invest

• person who invests capital, or money, in a business to earn a profit

• To put money into a business in hopes of making a profit

• rise in rebellion

Turnpike

• a road made of sawed-off logs laid side by side

• toll road

• Laws that kept certain groups from voting

Isolated

• Detached or separated, alone

• being effective without wasting time or effort or expense

• Movement of people from rural areas to cities

  Famine

Nativist

• person who invests capital, or money, in a business to earn a profit

• Identical pieces that could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers

• person opposed to immigration

Mass Production

• A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building

• Process of making many exact copies of a single product

• The period of time when machines began taking the place of human workers