1. Chapter 12 The Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

2. Industrial Revolution
Change in American society in the late 1700’s-early 1800’s that focused on new ways to produce goods

3. Spinning Jenney
Machine invented by James Hargreaves in 1764 that could spin several threads at once

4. Cotton Gin
Machine invented by Eli Whitney that could clean seeds from cotton 50x faster than by hand

5. Capitalist
A person who invests in a business to make a profit

6. Factory System
System that brought workers and machines together in once place to produce goods

7. Interchangeable Parts
Identical machine made parts for a tool or instrument

8. Mass Production
The rapid production of large numbers of identical objects

9. Lowell Girls
Girls from Massachusetts farms hired to work in the Lowell textile factories

10. Urbanization
Movement of the population from farms to cities

11. Turnpike
A road built by a private company that charges a toll to use it

12. Corduroy Road
Roads made out of split logs

13. Canal
An artificial channel filled with water to allow boats to cross a stretch of land

14. Erie Canal
A canal built in New York in 1825 that linked the Great Lakes with the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers