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| 11136775776 | Industrial Revolution | A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water, steam power, and the use of machine technology that transformed certain industries (cotton/iron textiles) between 1790 and 1860. | 0 | |
| 11136775777 | Commonwealth System | The republican system of political economy created by state governments by 1820, whereby states funneled aid to private businesses whose projects would improve the general welfare. | 1 | |
| 11136775778 | Division of Labor | A system of manufacture that divides production into a series of OF distinct and repetitive tasks performed by machines or workers. | 2 | |
| 11136775779 | Mineral-based economy | An economy based on coal and metal that began to emerge in the 1830's, as manufacturers increasingly ran machinery fashioned from metal with coal-burning stationary steam engines rather than with water power. | 3 | |
| 11136775780 | Mechanics | A term used in the 19th century to refer to skilled craftsmen and inventors who built and improved machinery and machine tools for industry. | 4 | |
| 11136775781 | Waltham-Lowell System | A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell, Chicopee, and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. | 5 | |
| 11136775782 | Machine Tools | Cutting, boring, and drilling machines used to produce metal parts, which were then assembled into products such as textile looms and sewing machines. | 6 | |
| 11136775783 | Artisan Republicanism | An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers, men, and women who owned their own shops. | 7 | |
| 11136775784 | Unions | Organizations of workers that began during the Industrial Revolution to bargain with employees over wages, hours, and control over workplace. | 8 | |
| 11136775785 | Labor Theory of Value | The belief that human labor produces economic value. | 9 | |
| 11136775786 | Market Revolution | The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions. | 10 | |
| 11136775787 | Erie Canal | A 364-mile waterway connecting the Hudson River and Lake Erie. | 11 | |
| 11136775788 | Middle Class | An economic group of prosperous farmers, artisans, and traders that emerged in the 19th century. | 12 | |
| 11136775789 | Self-made man | A 19th century ideal that celebrated men who rose to wealth or social prominence from humble origins through self-discipline, hard work, and temperate habits. | 13 | |
| 11136775790 | Benevolent Empire | A broad-ranging campaign of moral and institutional reforms inspired by evangelical Christian ideals and endorsed by upper-middle-class men and women in the 1820's-1830's. | 14 | |
| 11136775791 | Sabbatarian Movement | A movement to preserve the Sabbath (Sunday) as a holy day. | 15 | |
| 11136775792 | Moral Free Agency | The doctrine of free will that was the central message of Presbyterian Minister Charles Grandison Finney. | 16 | |
| 11136775793 | American Temperance Society | A society invigorated by evangelical Protestants in 1832 that set out to curb the consumption of alcoholic beverages. | 17 | |
| 11136775794 | Nativist Movements | Anti-foreign sentiment in the United States that fueled anti-immigrant and immigrant restriction policies against the Irish and Germans in the 1840's and 1850's and against other ethnic immigrants in subsequent decades. | 18 | |
| 11136775795 | Francis Cabot Lowell | The most important émigré mechanic who worked for Richard Arkwright, a renowned British mechanic. He later reproduced Arkwright's innovations in Providence, Rhode Island. | 19 | |
| 11136775796 | Samuel Slater | A wealthy Boston merchant who toured British textile mills and secretly made drawings of their power machinery. | 20 | |
| 11136775797 | Sellars Family | A family which produced many inventors such as Samuel Sellars Jr. and John Sellars. | 21 | |
| 11136775798 | Eli Whitney | A successful inventor who achieved prosperity after creating the cotton 'gin.' Later her created military weapons for financial gain. | 22 | |
| 11136775799 | lyman beecher | 1826, minister, wanted to bring kingdom of Christ to the US. Converted in the Second Great Awakening. Criticized other religions, along with drinking and gambling. Alienated himself from the people because of criticisms. | 23 | |
| 11136775800 | Charles Grandison Finney | A man who chose the path of ministry and found a new way to advocate religion. He conducted religious revival meetings that suggested that God accepts everyone. | 24 | |
| 11137191749 | Cyrus McCormick | Invented the mechanical reaper | 25 |
