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History Vocabulary
History Vocabulary Words
Word | Definition |
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Industrial Revolution | gradual process by which machines replaced hand tools, and steam and other new sources of power replaced human and animal power |
Capital | money raised for a business |
Factory System | method of producing goods |
Urbanization | process of a population's shifting from farms to cities |
Interchangeable Parts | identical, machine-made parts for a tool or instrument |
Flatboat | boat with a flat bottom used for transporting heavy loads on inland waterways. |
Turnpike | road built by a private company that charges a toll to use it |
Corduroy Road | road made of logs |
Telegraph | communications device that sends electrical signals along a wire |
Locomotive | engine that pulls a rail-road train |
Clipper Ship | fast sailing ship of the mid-1800s |
Boom | period of swift economic growth |
Cultivate | to prepare and use land for planting crops |