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