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The American Journey
"DMS" The American Journey Ch.10
| terms | definitions |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | period of time when inventors created machines to perform a lot of work, so people left their homes and farms to work in mills (factories) to earn money |
| capitalism | economic system of the United States where people put their money into a business in the hopes of making money if the business is successful |
| capital | money put into businesses in the hope of making more money (investments) |
| free enterprise | another term used to describe the economic system of the United States; where people are free to buy, sell and produce whatever they want and can work wherever they wish |
| technology | scientific discoveries that make work more simple |
| cotton gin | a simple machine that quickly and efficiently removed the seeds from the cotton fiber so cotton could be cleaned faster instead of having many people to clean it with their hands |
| patent | gives an inventor the legal right to their invention and the money that their invention makes for a certain amount of time |
| factory system | a system where all of the manufacturing steps were brought into one place to be more efficient; for example, all stages of making cloth were done under one roof |
| interchangeable parts | identical machine parts that could be quickly put together to make a complete project; all like parts could be produced in mass, thus reducing the price of the goods |
| census | official count of a population |
| turnpike | toll roads (roads built and a few is charged to those travelling on the road in order to pay for construction) |
| canal | an artificial (man made) waterway made to connect water ways to each other for transporting goods by steamboat |
| sectionalism | loyalty to ones region (area where they lived) |
| internal improvements | federal, state, and privately funded projects, such as canals and roads, to develop the nation’s transportation system |
| American System | Henry Clay’s program which included a protective tariff; a program of internal improvements (see above); a program for a national bank to control inflation and to lend money to build developing industries |
| disarmament | removal of weapons |
| demilitarize | a border without armed forces |
| court-martial | tried by a military court for overstepping instructions |
| lock | separate compartments on a canal where water levels were raised or lowered to provide a way to raise and lower boats at places where canal water levels changed |
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