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Industrial and Refor
Flash Cards
Question | Answer |
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Gradually machines took over the place of many hand tools, much of the power once provided by people and horses began to be replaced, first by flowing water then by steam engines. | Industrial Revolution |
Brings workers and machinery together in one place | Factory system |
People who invest capital or money, in a business to earn a profit | Capitalist |
The rapid manufacturing of large numbers of identical products. | Mass production |
Identical pieces that can be quickly by inskilled workers | Interchangeable Parts |
The growing of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities | Urbanization |
A device that used electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances | Telegraph |
Widespread starvation | Famine |
People who wanted to preserve the country for white Americanborn Protestants | Nativists |
The denial of equal rights or equal treatment based on race, religion, culture or nationality | Discrimination |
Machine that used a spiked cylinder to remove seeds from cotton fibers | Cotton gin |
Laws that controlled every aspect of slaves' lives | Slave codes |
A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol | Prohibition |
Reformers who want to abolish slavery | Abolitionist |
The right to vote | Suffrage |