The Industrial Revolution - Introductory

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  1. agriculture
    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
  2. assembly line
    series of machines and workers that build step-by-step
  3. automation
    the act of implementing the control of equipment
  4. canal
    long and narrow strip of water for boats or for irrigation
  5. capital
    wealth in the form of money or property
  6. capitalism
    an economic system based on private ownership of assets
  7. competition
    business relation in which two parties vie to gain customers
  8. corporation
    a business firm recognized by law as a single body
  9. cotton gin
    a machine that separates the seeds from raw fibers
  10. demand
    the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
  11. entrepreneur
    someone who organizes a business venture
  12. factory
    a plant with facilities for manufacturing
  13. immigrant
    a person who comes to a country in order to settle there
  14. industrialization
    the development of commercial enterprise
  15. Industrial Revolution
    the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation
  16. industry
    the action of making of goods and services for sale
  17. infrastructure
    basic facilities needed for the functioning of a country
  18. invention
    a creation resulting from study and experimentation
  19. invest
    lay out money or resources in an enterprise
  20. labor
    productive work, especially physical work done for wages
  21. laborer
    someone who works with their hands
  22. locomotive
    a self-propelled vehicle that draws a train along a track
  23. manufacture
    put together out of artificial or natural components
  24. mass production
    the manufacturing of large quantities of goods
  25. mechanization
    the act of using technology to automate a process or system
  26. merchant
    a businessperson engaged in retail trade
  27. middle class
    a socioeconomic group that is neither wealthy nor poor
  28. migration
    the movement of persons from one locality to another
  29. mill
    a facility for manufacturing
  30. modernization
    the act of making up-to-date in appearance or behavior
  31. monopoly
    a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller
  32. natural resources
    resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature
  33. production
    manufacturing or mining or growing something for sale
  34. profit
    excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time
  35. railroad
    the commercial organization responsible for operating trains
  36. reaper
    farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields
  37. revolution
    a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking
  38. rural
    living in or characteristic of farming or country life
  39. shuttle
    bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
  40. specialization
    making something suitable for a particular purpose
  41. spinning jenny
    an early spinning machine with multiple spindles
  42. standard of living
    the level of material goods and services available
  43. steamboat
    a boat propelled by a steam engine
  44. steam engine
    external-combustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder
  45. stock
    capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares
  46. strike
    refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad conditions
  47. supply
    offering goods and services for sale
  48. technology
    the practical application of science to commerce or industry
  49. telegraph
    apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire
  50. telephone
    electronic equipment that transmits sound over distances
  51. tenement
    a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
  52. textile
    artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting fibers
  53. textile mill
    a factory for making textiles
  54. treadle
    a lever that is operated with the foot
  55. union
    an employee organization that bargains with an employer
  56. urbanization
    the social process whereby cities grow
  57. working class
    a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
Created on Thu Jan 19 15:40:26 EST 2017 (updated Fri Apr 07 16:04:03 EDT 2017)

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