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Industrialism
Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Industrialism | a system based on the use of machines rather than on animal or human power |
| Agricultural Revolution | helped industry to take root in Great Britain |
| Enclosure Movement | allowed large land-owners to fence off common lands |
| Crop Rotation | rotating crops on three fields |
| Domestic System | cottage industry |
| Factory System | a method of production that brought machines and workers together |
| Urbanization | movement of people from rural areas to cities |
| Zaibatsu | government and industrialist |
| Monopoly | total control |
| Strike | the refusal to work |
| Socialism | believe that society |
| Means of production | factories, land, capital, and raw material |
| Partnerships | involves two or more entrepreneurs |
| Industrial Capitalism | a system that was based on the industrial production goods |
| Corporation | organizations owned by stock holders who buys shares in a company |
| Trade Unions | an association of workers with the same skill who unite to improve wages, benefits, working conditions, and workers rights. |
| Jethro Tull | invented the seed drill |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | opens a textile mill |
| Samuel Slater | slips out of Britain, carrying spinning know-how |
| Matthew Perry | arrives in Japan with a fleet of new steam-powered warship. |