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Flashcards for Mr. Mattia's industrial revolution, reform, and immigration unit.

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Industrial Revolution   happens whenever people in a region start to use machines instead of hand-tools.  
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Industrial Revolution Dates   For America: 1789-1930's  
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Productivity   the quantity of goods you can produce  
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Enclosure Movement   when, in Great Britain, farmers stoped farming and instead raised sheep - to do this they “enclosed” their property with fences.  
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Naval blockades   surrounding a country with gunships so they can't trade with anyone. England did this to us in the War of 1812.  
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Profit   the money you make from busniness after you pay your expenses  
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Natural resources   the stuff you need to make other stuff. raw materials  
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human resources   people to run factories and supply resources  
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capital resources   tools, machines, and money to run a factory  
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP)   the value of the goods/services produced in 1 year.  
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Market Economy   Resources, and finished goods and services are privately owned, bought, & sold.  
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water power   the power that powered our first factories. They were built beside swiftly moving rivers and streams.  
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mass production   identical goods were produced in great quantities  
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Samuel Slater   brought the first textile factories to America by smuggling the plans in his head out of England. Owned the Slater Mills.  
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Francis Cabot Lowell   employed young girls at his mills and tried to provide for their well-being.  
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Eli Whitney   Invented the Cotton Gin as well as Interchangeable parts.  
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Cotton Gin   A machine that removed the seeds from raw cotton and made it much easier to harvest.  
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Interchangeable Parts   a way of making things where you mass produce parts that all fit together to make something, rather than making one thing at a time.  
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Robert Fulton   American inventor of the steamboat.  
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Samuel F.B. Morse   Invented Morse Code for use with the telegraph machine.  
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Elias Howe   Invented the first sewing machine.  
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John Deere   Invented the steel plow.  
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Cyrus McCormick   Invented the modern reaper for harvesting crops.  
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Charles Goodyear   Invented vulcanized rubber which greatly increased its ability to withstand heat and cold and be put into useful forms.  
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Blessings of the Industrial Revolution   Study these in your notes  
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Curses of the Industrial Revolution   Study these in your notes  
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Opportunity Cost   the most important alternative that is given up as a result of a specific economic decision.  
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Labor Unions   organizations that workers form to improve their conditions  
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Strike   a refusal to work until demands for improved conditions are met  
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Putting-out system   families produced at home; made wages; worked for themselves without an immediate supervisor  
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Nativists   people that wanted to keep the country for “native Americans” (“Native American” does not refer to Indians in this case)  
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Second Great Awakening   Christian revival that swept through America in the early 1800's. Helped a lot of reform movements.  
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Temperance Movement/Society   Group of people that believed in banning alcohol.  
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Dorthea Dix   brought reform to how we treated mentally ill people.  
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Seneca Falls Convention   organized by women in 1848 to discuss the limitations put on women by society at the time. Birth-place of feminism  
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Susan B. Anthony   fought for women's suffrage rights.  
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suffrage   the right to vote.  
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