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| 4983625143 | Interchangeable parts | Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing. | 0 | |
| 4983633199 | Market Revolution | Drastic changes in transportation (canals/roads), communication (telegraph), and the production of goods (more in factories as opposed to houses) | 1 | |
| 4983637886 | Industrial Revolution | A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production.A series of improvements occurred in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. | 2 | |
| 4983642370 | Division of Labor | Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers (like an assembly line). | 3 | |
| 4983677954 | Factory system | This new system gradually replaced localized cottage industry. Workers were paid by the hour instead of for what they produce. On one hand it decreased the need for skilled labor, but in other ways it increased the amount of specialization due to labor being concentrated in factories. | 4 | |
| 4992119558 | Mechanics | To protect the British textile industry from American competition, the British government prohibited the export of textile machinery and emigration of these people Lured by the prospect of higher wages, though, thousands of British mechanics disguised themselves as laborers and sailed to the United States. | 5 | |
| 4992127259 | Francis Lowell | Boston merchant who had an idea to combine spinning and weaving under one roof. He formed the Boston Associates. They built a textile mill in Massachusetts. Had all machines needed to turn raw cotton into cloth. | 6 | |
| 4992128493 | Waltham Plan | It was a Strategy for a cheaper source of labor, it recruited thousands of young women from farm families to work in textile factories, provide them with room and board, evening lectures and cultural activities with strict curfews, no alcohol and regular church attendance. | 7 | |
| 4992153214 | Eli Whitney | An American inventor who developed the cotton gin. Also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that were exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged. | 8 | |
| 4992157070 | Wage earners | The poor people who worked in the factory and lived in the tenements. | 9 | |
| 4992172660 | Transportation revolution | A period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel because of new methods of transportation. Innovations included new construction of roads, additions of canals, and the expansion of the railroad. | 10 | |
| 4992178404 | Canals | 1817-1825, private interests and local government initiated an fort to build canals. revolutionized shipping, you could move stuff quickly and efficiently. Caused boom that lasted through 1830s. Opened Great lakes to the transport of goods. | 11 | |
| 4992191421 | Erie Canal | A canal between the New York cities of Albany and Buffalo, completed in 1825. The canal, considered a marvel of the modern world at the time, allowed western farmers to ship surplus crops to sell in the North and allowed northern manufacturers to ship finished goods to sell in the West. | 12 | |
| 4992194259 | Robert Fulton | American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815). | 13 | |
| 4992197238 | Clermont & steamboats | Fulton's steamboat in 1807 which powered on/by a newly designed engine. It took the Clermont 32 hours to go 150 miles from New York to Albany. | 14 | |
| 4992199301 | Post Office Act of 1792 | Established more than 8000 post offices by 1830 and safely delivered thousands of letters and banknotes worth millions of dollars. | 15 | |
| 4992201749 | Mass production | The production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques). | 16 | |
| 4992208657 | John Deere | American blacksmith that was responsible for inventing the steel plow. This new plow was much stronger than the old iron version; therefore, it made plowing farmland in the west easier, making expansion faster. | 17 | |
| 4992208658 | Cyrus McCormick | Irish-American inventor that developed the mechanical reaper. The reaper replaced scythes as the preferred method of cutting crops for harvest, and it was much more efficient and much quicker. The invention helped the agricultural growth of America. | 18 | |
| 4992210944 | Business Elite (Upper Class) | Was typically the merchants, manufacturers, bankers, and landlords, they were the more wealthy people in a society. | 19 | |
| 4992210945 | Middle Class | Standing between wealthy owners at one end of the urban social spectrum and property less wage earners at the other. | 20 | |
| 4992212606 | Benevolent Empire | A group of ministers that created organizations of social reform to restore "the moral government of god". They targeted drunkeness, adultery, prostitution, and crime. The organizations include the Prison Discipline Society and the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance. | 21 | |
| 4992212607 | Charles Grandison Finney | An evangelist who was one of the greatest preachers of all time. He also made the "anxious bench" for sinners to pray and was was against slavery and alcohol. | 22 | |
| 4992216947 | Temperance | Means moderation, self-control, especially regarding alcohol or other desires or pleasures; total abstinence from alcohol. | 23 | |
| 4992214394 | Irish Immigration | Caused largely by the potato famine in Ireland. Irish immigrants came and received much discrimination due to their Catholic faith as well as exploitation in factories due to their limited skills. Archbishop John Hughes urges them to maintain their identity, which leads to the development of Catholic schools. | 24 | |
| 4992214395 | Nativism | A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones. An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840's and 1850's in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics. | 25 |
