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Economics
Unit 4 Economics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| barter | to trade |
| agrarian | a farming economy |
| Industrial Revolution | went from making things by hand to using machines |
| demand | the amount of goods consumers are willing to buy |
| supply | the amount of goods producers are willing to make |
| economy | a system of money |
| technology | tools that make life easier |
| plantation | a large farm with surplus crops that used slave labor |
| mercantilism | economic system to benefit the mother country |
| market | place where goods are bought & sold |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin & interchangeable parts |
| cotton gin | removed seeds from cotton |
| Henry Ford | introduced the assembly line |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| textiles & farming | two industries affected by Industrial Revolution |
| causese of the Great Depression | stock market crash & overproduction |