Unit 3 – The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on New York

State

This glossary includes vocabulary words, definitions, and pictures. These slides can be

viewed as a whole class PowerPoint presentation and can be printed as thumbnail slides for students to have as a study guide.

They can also be printed in full size and placed on the wall of the classroom.

Created by the fourth grade teachers at Byram Hills

canala man made inland waterway

built for transportation or irrigation

child laboryoung children who worked in

factories or mines beginning as young as 5 years old

ditcha long narrow channel or trench dug into the earth

excavatingdigging out and removing

factorya building or set of buildings equipped for manufacturing

heritagesomething acquired from the

past

homelandnative land (where you were

born)

immigranta person who comes to a country

to live there

lockan enclosure, or chamber in a canal, with watertight gates at each end (Used for

raising or lowering boats from one elevation to another by filling or draining water in the

chamber.)

http://www.eriecanal.org/locks.html

locomotivea self-propelled engine, running on rails, used to move cars for

passengers and freight

low bridgea bridge built right above the water

millsmachines used in treating (as by

grinding, crushing, stamping, cutting or finishing) raw material

packet boata special boat designed to carry

passengers instead of cargo (Packets traveled faster than cargo boats.)

passagea right to travel as a passenger on a

boat

porta harbor town or city where ships

load or unload cargo

protesta complaint, objection, or display of

unwillingness or disapproval

raw materialsnatural or unprocessed minerals or

plants from which useful products are derived or manufactured.

reformto change things for the better

social reformthe attempt to improve or

change the unequal treatment of people

ruralrelating to the country, country

people or life, or agriculture

steam enginean engine driven or worked by steam

stump pullera machine used to remove the base

of trees (called stumps)

suburbanrelating to a smaller community close to a

city

suffragethe right to vote

technologythe use of science in solving problems

tolla small fee people pay to use a canal, bridge,

or road

tradethe buying, selling, or exchange of

goods

transportationthe moving of goods or people from

one place to another

urbanrelating to a city

wedding of the waters

the merging of two major waterways by the Erie Canal

working conditionslow pay, long hours, and dangerous physical environment in the factories and mines for workers during the Industrial Revolution