Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Industrial Revolution
time of rapid technological growth, improved agriculture and industrial production
Urbanization
the movement of people to cities
Interchangeable Parts
Inventor: Eli Whitney
made production faster and helped lead to the assembly line
Erie Canal
made shipping of goods faster
Steamboat
Robert Fulton (1807)
The Reaper
Cyrus McCormick (1837)
The Steel Plow
“John Deere” (1837)
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
led to the expansion of slavery
Telegraph
Samuel Morse
Push Factor
negative-pushes someone out of a country
Pull Factor
positive-pulls someone into a country
Education Reform
Horace Mann
Mental Health Reform
Dorthea Dix
Women’s Rights (Suffrage) leaders
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Susan B. Anthony
Author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist Movement leaders
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Free Enterprise System
economic system where market determines the price of goods and there is minimal government involvement
Advantages of Free Enterprise System
competition
profit
innovation
Transcendentalism
idea that all humans are born good but become corrupted by society
Transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
