Industrial Revolution - era where household industries were replaced with factories and powered machinery, Textile mills - factory for making clothes (fabrics), Interchangeable Parts - Allowed for parts of machines to be replaced without getting a new machine., Capitalism - An economic system based on private property and free enterprise. Uses law of supply and demand to set prices, Labor union - workers' organization formed to fight against poor factory conditions, low wages, and machinery that replaced workers, Urbanization - movement of people who were displaced from their jobs, from rural areas (country) to the cities, Factory System - A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building, Laissez-faire - Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs., Slums - Urban apartment buildings that served as housing for poor factory workers. Often poorly constructed and overcrowded., Child Labor - Children were viewed as laborers throughout the 19th century. Many children worked on farms, small businesses, mills and factories., Women at Work - Women mostly found jobs in domestic service, textile factories, and piece work shops. Work conditions were often very dangerous as well., Lowell Mills - Textile mills located in the factory town of Lowell, Massachusetts, Nativism - favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people, Industrialization - the process of developing machine production of goods, Environmental modification - changes made to the environment, Immigration - Movement of individuals into a population, Patent - exclusive rights over an invention; copyright, Push-pull factors - Factors that induce people to leave old residence and move to new locations., Mechanized - equipped with machinery, Sectional Differences - Each region of the country had different resouces to develop economically. (North-South-West), Supply and Demand - relationship between the amount of product and the desire for the product, Assembly Line - Production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks, Free Interprise - an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control.,

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