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the industrial revol
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the enclosure movement | fencing off of public lands by wealthy landowners |
| How did the Agricultural Revolution help the Industrial Revolution? | With more food available, people ate better and were healthier, and then there was a demand for more clothes and other goods and people to work in factories |
| What is the factory system? | workers and machines together in one place to manufacture goods |
| What was the importance of steam engines to the Industrial Revolution? | They were four times more powerful and helped move goods faster and more efficiently--helped the clothing, mining and transportation industry |
| Which nations industrialized first? | Northern European nations of Great Britain, Belgium, and France. |
| What is a corporation? | A business owned by many individuals--each individual buys one or more shares in the corporation |
| What is a monopoly? | total control over the market for a particular product--example, railroads, electricity, |
| How did corporations and banks help industrialization? | People would invest in corporations and make money which they would put in banks--then banks would use that money to invest in business |