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Industrial revolutio
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Indurtrial Revolution | A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and prodution that began in the mid 1700s. |
| enclosure movement | A process in Europe from 1700smto the mid 1800s where landoweners fencend small feilds to create lager farms, allowing for more efficient farming methods and increased the food supply. |
| factors of prodution | The basic resources for industrailization, such as land, labor, and capital. |
| cottage industry | A usually small scale industry carried on at home by family maembers using their own equipment. |
| factory | A place where goods are manufactured in mass quantity. |
| industrialization | Developing industries for the production of goods. |
| Jethro Tull | British inventor; he invented the seed drill. |
| Richard Arkwright | English inventor ;in 1769 he panted the spinging frame, which spun stroger thiner; tread. |
| James Watt | Scottish inventor; he developed crucail innovations to make the steam engine efficent, fast, and better able to power machinery. |
| Robert Fulton | American engineer and inventor, he built the first commercially successful,fullsized steamboat, the clermont which led to the development of commercial steamboat ferry services for goods and people. |
| Labor union | An organization repersenting workers interests |
| strike | A work stoppage. |
| mass production | the sytem of manufacturing large numbers of indentiacl items |
| interchange parts | Identiacl machine made parts that can be substituted for each other in manufacturing. |
| assembly line | A mass prodution process in which a product is moved forward throgh many work stistions where workers perfrom specifc task. |