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IndustrialRevolution
Term | 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 that brought workers and machinery together in one place |
Urbanization | Process of population's shifting from farms to cities |
Interchangeable Parts | Identical, machine-mad 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 Ships | Fast sailing ship of the mid-1800s |
Boom | Period of swift economic growth |
Cultivate | To prepare and use land for planting crops |