Vocabulary Test (3/17)

Question 0

Capitalist

Answer 0

Person with money to invest in a business to make a profit

Question 1

Cotton gin

Answer 1

Cotton cleaning device invented by Eli Whitney in 1793

Question 2

Factory system

Answer 2

Method of producing goods that brings workers and machines together in one place

Question 3

Interchangeable parts

Answer 3

Process developed that calls for making each vital part of a machine exactly the same

Question 4

Turnpike

Answer 4

Road built by private company

Question 5

Canal

Answer 5

Channel dug and filled with water to allow ships to cross stretches of land.

Question 6

Textiles

Answer 6

Cloth

Question 7

Profit

Answer 7

Amount remaining after all the costs of business have been paid

Question 8

Wages

Answer 8

Money paid for labor or survives

Question 9

Technology

Answer 9

Tools used to produce goods or do work

Question 10

Mass production

Answer 10

Production of large numbers of identical goods

Question 11

Trade unions

Answer 11

Organizations created by workers to improving working conditions

Question 12

Strike

Answer 12

Refusing to work until demands met

Question 13

National road

Answer 13

First road built by untied states gov, which went from Maryland to southern Illinois

Question 14

Blockade

Answer 14

Shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out

Question 15

Neutral

Answer 15

Choosing it to fight on either side

Question 16

Transportation revolution

Answer 16

A rapid growth in the speed and convenience of transportation

Question 17

Morse code

Answer 17

A dog or dash which represents a letter of the alphabet

Question 18

Telegraph

Answer 18

Used dots and dashes to send messages long distance electronically through a wire.

Question 19

Impressment

Answer 19

British practice of forcing people to serve in the British army or navy