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| 5623425906 | Industrial revolution | A burst of major inventions and economic expansion based on water and steam power and the use of machine tech that transformed certain industries such as cotton textiles and iron between 1790 and 1860. | 0 | |
| 5623425907 | Division of labor | A system of manufacturing that production into a series of distinct and repetitive tasks performed by machines or workers. | 1 | |
| 5623428845 | Mineral-based economy | An economy based on coal and metal the began to emerge in the 1830's as manufacturers increasingly ran machinery fashioned from metal with coal-burning stationary steam engines rather that with water power. | 2 | |
| 5623428846 | Waltham-Lowell syestem | A system of labor using young women recruited from farm families to work in factories in Lowell, Chicoppe, and other sites in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The women lived in company boardinghouses with strict rules and curfews and were often required to attend church. | 3 | |
| 5623431277 | Machine tools | Cutting, boring, and drilling machines used to produce standardized metal parts, which were then assembled into products such as textiles looms and sewing machines The rapid development of machines tools by American inventors in the early 19th century was a factor in the rapid spread of industrialization. | 4 | |
| 5637410011 | Artisan Republicanism | An ideology that celebrated small-scale producers, men and women who owned their own shops(or farms). It defined the ideal republican society as one constituted by, and dedicated to the welfare of, independent workers and citizens. | 5 | |
| 5637410012 | unions | Organization of workers that begun during the industrial revolution to bargain with employers over wages, hours, benefits, and control of the workplace. | 6 | |
| 5637412475 | labor theory of value | The belief that human labor producers economic value. Adherents argued that the price of a product should be determined no by the market (supply and demand) but by the amount of work required to make it, and that most of the price should be paid to the person who created it. | 7 | |
| 5637412476 | Market Revolution | The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods an service in market transaction. The Marker Revolution reflected the increased output of farms and factories the entrepreneurial activities of traders and merchants, at the creation of a transportation network of roads, canals, and railroads. | 8 | |
| 5637414450 | Erie Canal | 364-mile mile water way connecting the Hudson river and lake Erie. The Erie canal brought prosperity to the entire great lake region, and its benefits prompted civic and business leaders in Philadelphia and Baltimore to propose canals to link their cities to the Midwest. | 9 | |
| 5637414451 | Middle Class | An economic group of prosperous farmers, artisans, aht traders that emerged in the early 19th century, Its rise reflected a dramatic increase in prosperity. This surge in income, along with an abundance of inexpensive mass-produced goods, fostered a distinct middle class urban culture. | 10 | |
| 5637414452 | Self-made man | A 19th century idea that celebrated men who rose to wealth of social prominence form humble origins though self-discipline, hard work, and temperate habits. | 11 | |
| 5637417467 | Benevolent Empire | A broad-ranging campaign of moral and institutional reforms inspired by evangelical Christians ideas and endorsed by upper-middle-class men and women in the 1820's and 1830's | 12 | |
| 5637417468 | Sabbatarian values | A campaign of municipal law forbidding values. | 13 | |
| 5637419667 | Moral free agency | The doctrine of free will that was the central message of Presbyterian minister Charles Grandison Finney. It was particularly attractive to members of the new middle class, who had accepted personal responsibility for their lives, improved their material condition, and welcomed Finney's assurance that heaven was also within their grasps. | 14 | |
| 5637419668 | Nativist movements | Anti-foreign sentiments in the united states that fueled anti-immigrant an immigration-restrictions policies against the Irish and German in the 1840's and the 1850's and against other ethnic immigrants in subsequent decades. | 15 | |
| 5637421985 | American Temperance Society | A society invigorated by evangelical Protestants in 1832 that set out to curb the consumption of alcoholic beverages. | 16 |
