Industrial Revolution Vocabulary, 8-1 by Sierra Turner

Directions - Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

sturner53 — 2025-03-18 04:08:39 UTC

1. Find your name and the vocabulary word assigned to you.

2. Open the Discovery Ed techbook and find all that you can about your word. Link here

3. Post a definition and/or description in a complete sentence, including the WORD itself as the title

4. Include a visual with your post.

5. Add any related information that is relevant, interesting, and/or helpful.

Vocab assignments

sturner53 — 2025-03-18 04:13:06 UTC

Eric - laissez faire & interchangeable parts

Evan- "The Wealth of Nations" & Adam Smith

Eliot- Entrepreneurs & Free market economy

Allen- cash crops & Samuel Slater

Selina F. - textile industry

Tia - market revolution

Elisa - Elias Howe & Issac Singer

Lily Salgado - Frances Cabot Lowell

Daniella - Eli Whitney & cotton gin

Seleena E. - Robert Fulton & telegraph

Presley - John Deere & Cyrus McCormick

Sabrina - Opposition and Consequences of industrialization

Elisa Angeles | Elias Howe

2025-03-19 16:14:06 UTC

Elias Howe is known for inventing the lockstitch sewing machine. Which is an invention that is still used today. Elias Howe can be viewed as an essential piece in the American sewing industry. With sewing machines such as these factories or other businesses could create clothes or fabrics twice as fast.

Evan Solomonson - The wealth of nations

2025-03-19 16:14:08 UTC

The Wealth of Nations is a book by Adam Smith on economic thought. It outlines that a nations Wealth is created through the free market of goods, and that the economy should be shaped by individuals desires.

Eliot - Entrepreneurs

2025-03-19 16:15:11 UTC

An Entrepreneur is someone who takes a calculated risk by investing in a new business. During the Industrial Revolution, this was increasingly common. People put their money on the line by starting a railroad company, factory business, ect.

This helped boost the American economy by creating job opportunities, driving down costs, and making the economy system more competitive and efficient.

Presley Rury

2025-03-19 16:16:33 UTC

John Deere & Cyrus McCormick

John Deere and Cyrus McCormick were American inventors and business men who revolutionized farming in the early 19th century.

John Deere

John Deere was a blacksmith, businessman, inventor, and politician who founded Deere & Company, a leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer, and is known for inventing the first commercially successful steel plow.

Cyrus McCormick

Cyrus McCormick is best known for inventing the mechanical reaper, a horse drawn machine that revolutionized grain harvesting and significantly impacted agriculture

Evan Solomonson - Adam Smith

2025-03-19 16:16:42 UTC

Adam Smith is the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and is considered "The Father of Modern Economics" due to his revolutionary work on the subject.

Daniella-Eli Witney

2025-03-19 16:16:42 UTC

Eli Whitney was born on December 8, 1825. He was an American inventor who was mostly known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793. He was often called "father of American technology" and most importantly, developed the concept of mass production of interchangeable parts. He graduated from Yale College and died on January 8, 1825.

Elisa Angeles | Isaac Singer

2025-03-19 16:16:44 UTC

Isaac Singer was a very successful man, and although Elias Howe invented a lockstitch sewing machine, Isaac created the first practical sewing machine. Along with the first multinational company.

Sabrina ~ Opposition and Consequences of Industrialization

2025-03-19 16:19:07 UTC

Although many people supported and encouraged new transportation opportunities, manufacturing projects and other industrialization advances, there were many who strongly opposed them too. Many of these projects were extremely expensive, and people feared it would draw funds away from more important causes. Many were afraid they would go out of business or that transportation would affect their jobs. Also, these projects had environmental effects. Bodies of water were more contaminated, and the air was polluted more in urbanized areas.

Eric McCague - Laissez Faire

2025-03-19 16:19:09 UTC

Laissez faire definition - Is what stops the government from interfering with the free market and what spans the gap between the free market and the private groups.

Laissez faire explanation - The laissez fair is the idea of a free market, where the government stays mostly uninvolved, and the money mainly lies with the people. The inventor is Adam Smith. Also the word laissez fair is French.

Francis Cabot Lowell

2025-03-19 16:19:28 UTC

Francis Cabot Lowell was born in 1775 he was even born into a wealthy family. Him and two other guys founded the Boston Manufacturing Company. Right before women started making cloth out of cotton they made cloth by a machine, but the only difference was that he let them have freedom and educational opportunities. Once Francis died in 1817 they replaced the women for immigrant workers.

Robert Fulton

2025-03-19 16:19:37 UTC

Robert Fulton, born in 1765, had traveled to England as a young man to become a painter, and although he was unsuccessful in painting, he learned about inventions for moving boats more efficiently and switched his career to developing transportation.

In 1802, he became partners with Robert Livingston, who owned the rights to steamboat navigation in New York State, and built a steamboat called the Clermont, launching it in 1807. Robert Fulton had refined the system so the steamboat could travel upriver against the current flow. He also recommended building the Erie Canal and a steam warship.

Selina Feske-Textile Industry

2025-03-19 16:20:00 UTC

The Textile Industry, also known as the processing of clothe and other materials. The textile industry was the very first industry in the nation to use machines for manufacturing at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (in the U.S.A back in the 1800's).

Cash crop and Samuel slater

2025-03-19 16:20:08 UTC

Samuel Slater: Father of the American Industrial Revolution brought British textile technology to the United States in the late 1700s, establishing the first successful water-powered cotton mill

cash crop: agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market or for export to make profit.

Eliot - Free Market Economy

2025-03-19 16:21:08 UTC

Free market economy is a principle that was gaining popularity during the Industrial Revolution. It is based on the idea of supply and demand, allowing private ownership, competition, and little to no government control.

This, combined with the rise of entrepreneurs, significantly boosted the American economy. Without government control, companies try to compete, driving costs down, therefore making the market more efficent.

Daniella-cotton gin

2025-03-19 16:21:17 UTC

The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. It essentially is a machine that rapidly separates cotton fibers from their seeds. This invention revolutionized the cotton business and majorly impacted the Southern economy.

Tiana Paredes - Market Revolution

2025-03-19 16:22:29 UTC

The market revolution is a term developed by historians to describe the change in economic systems from preindustrial subsistence economies to a society made for marketing. Goods were able to be traded across great distances to reach larger markets, before then, it was completely local. Technological breakthroughs and transportation during this transition affected society beautifully with turnpikes, steamboats, canals, and railroads. People, alongside raw materials and various other goods, could travel farther, faster, and more efficiently. Communication was also different, including the telegraph and more newspapers. As this interconnectedness advanced over time, a national infrastructure and finances going towards new roads, bridges, canals, and more were available to use for transportation, also offered the creation of state-chartered banks.

Eric McCague - Interchangeable parts

2025-03-19 16:23:10 UTC

Interchangeable parts definition - Parts usually in a larger machine, that can be replaced, with out destroyed the machine as a whole.

Interchangeable parts description - Parts that are removable and supposed to be destroyed and replaced, without replacing the whole machine.

The Telegraph

2025-03-19 16:26:43 UTC

The telegraph was an invention created by Samuel Morse in 1844, which sent electrical signals through wires. Morse and his business partner, Alfred Vail, developed a system with combinations of long and short signals called "dots" and "dashes", which stood for letters - the system was called Morse Code.