1. 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

2. canal a man made inland waterway built for transportation or irrigation

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

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

5. factory a building or set of buildings equipped for manufacturing

6. heritage something acquired from the past

7. homeland native land (where you were born)

8. immigrant a person who comes to a country to live there

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

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

11. low bridge a bridge built right above the water

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

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

14. passage a right to travel as a passenger on a boat

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

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

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

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

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

20. steam engine an engine driven or worked by steam

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

22. suburban relating to a smaller community close to a city

23. suffrage the right to vote

24. technology the use of science in solving problems

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

26. trade the buying, selling, or exchange of goods

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

28. urban relating to a city

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

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