Industrial Revolution and Social Reforms

Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply

• mass production
• supply
• prison reform
• emancipation

A large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods

• factory
• Underground Railroad
• immigrants
• Capitalism

A person who wanted to end slavery

• abolitionist
• demand
• industry
• Underground Railroad

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Capitalism
• suffrage
• Industrial Revolution
• oppression

people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country

• immigrants
• industry
• supply
• emancipation

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

• Fugitive Slave Act
• factory
• supply
• child labor

the right to vote

• suffrage
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Industrial Revolution
• agriculture

A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production began in the mid-1700s

• Industrial Revolution
• Capitalism
• temperance
• Underground Railroad

economic activity is concerned with the processing of raw materials and the manufacture of goods in factories.

• industry
• Capitalism
• Cotton Belt
• immigrants

farming

• agriculture
• abolitionist
• child labor
• Capitalism