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Q1W4 Vocab
Vocabulary for W4 - Industrial Revolution
Term | Definition |
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Agrarian economy | any society whose economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland |
Emigration | The act of LEAVING a home country to live in another country |
Monopoly | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. |
Urbanization | the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas |
Free enterprise | an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of government control |
Industrial | when a company makes products by using machinery and factories |
Immigration | the movement of people INTO a country from another country |
Migration | a large number of people moving from one place to another |
Labor union | an organized group of workers, formed to protect and further their rights and interests |