US Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

city, high population, opposite of rural

• trade

• rural

• urban

• plantations

A large building in which machinery is used to make products

• trade

• factory

• mass production

• urban

moving people or products from one place to another

• plantations

• factory

• Lowell System

• transportation

Making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply

• factory

• textile

• mass production

• plantation

cloth or woven fabric

• rural

• textile

• canal

• interchangeable parts

large farms of crops, usually with slaves

• plantations

• urban

• trade

• canal

Exchange of goods and services

• transportation

• mass production

• trade

• interchangeable parts

Textile factories, young women and children, Apartments for them to live in.

• urban

• rural

• plantations

• Lowell System

A river made by people

• textiles

• canal

• mass productions

• transportation

Farms, lower population, Opposite of the city.

• rural

• urban

• plantations

• Lowell System