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

canal a man made inland waterway built for transportation or irrigation

child labor young children who worked in factories or mines beginning as young as 5 years old

ditch a long narrow channel or trench dug into the earth excavating digging out and removing

factory a building or set of buildings equipped for manufacturing

heritage something acquired from the past

homeland native land (where you were born)

immigrant a person who comes to a country to live there

lock an 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.)

locomotive a self-propelled engine, running on rails, used to move cars for passengers and freight

low bridge a bridge built right above the water

mills machines used in treating (as by grinding, crushing, stamping, cutting or finishing) raw material

packet boat a special boat designed to carry passengers instead of cargo (Packets traveled faster than cargo boats.)

passage a right to travel as a passenger on a boat

port a harbor town or city where ships load or unload cargo

protest a complaint, objection, or display of unwillingness or disapproval

raw materials natural or unprocessed minerals or plants from which useful products are derived or manufactured.

reform to change things for the better social reform the attempt to improve or change the unequal treatment of people

rural relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture

steam engine an engine driven or worked by steam

stump puller a machine used to remove the base of trees (called stumps)

suburban relating to a smaller community close to a city

suffrage the right to vote

technology the use of science in solving problems

toll a small fee people pay to use a canal, bridge, or road

trade the buying, selling, or exchange of goods

transportation the moving of goods or people from one place to another

urban relating to a city

wedding of the waters the merging of two major waterways by the Erie Canal

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