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Topic 7 vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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abolitionist | a person who wants to end slavery |
capital | money invested in a business venture |
civil disobedience | the refusal to obey unjust laws using nonviolent means |
credit | an agreement in which a borrower receives money or goods now, with an agreement to repay a greater amount later |
cultivate | to prepare and work soil for planting and growing crops |
demand | the desire or readiness and ability of people to purchase goods or services at a specific price |
factory system | the method of producing goods that brought workers and machinery together in one place |
industrial revolution | the change from manual production to machine-power factory production |
interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney's development of identical, machine-made parts for a tool or an instrument |
Know-Nothing Party | an anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant political party started in the 1850s |
Lowell girls | young girls who worked in the Lowell Mills during the Industrial Revolution |
scarcity | a shortage of supply |
Second Great Awakening | a widespread religious movement in the United States in the early 1800s |
Seneca Falls Convention | an 1848 meeting that called for equal rights for women |
slave codes | laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans |
strike | the refusal by workers to do their jobs until their demands were met |
supply | the amount of goods or resources in stock or on hand or available in the market to sell |
temperance movement | the campaign against alcohol consumption |
trade union | an association made of workers formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions |
underground railroad | a network of abolitionists who secretly helped African Americans to escape to freedom |
urbanization | the movement of population from farms to cities |
women's rights movement | an organized campaign to win legal, educational, employment, and other rights for women |