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IndustrialRevolution
Midterm Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | the process of change from an agricultural and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world |
| Enclosure Movement | a push in the 18th-19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or available to the public for feeding animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land |
| Crop Rotation | the practice of growing a series of unlike or different types of crops in the same area in sequenced seasons. This helps reduce soil erosion and increases soil fertility and crop income |
| Factors of Production | an economic term that describes the inputs used in the production of goods or services in order to make an economic profit. Includes land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship, and the state of technological progresss |
| Land | raw property and anything that comes from the ground (natural resources). It can be a non-renewable resource which includes goods such as oil and gold. It can also be a renewable resource, such as timber |
| Labor | work effort the efforts exerted to produce any goods or services. It includes all types of human efforts – physical exertion, mental exercise, use of intellect, etc. done in exchange for an economic reward |
| Capital | anything made that is used to make something else |
| Entrepreneurship | |
| Mechanization | |
| Factory System | |
| Domestic System | |
| Interchangeable Parts | |
| Division of Labor | |
| Mass Production | |
| Assembly Line | |
| Urbanization | |
| Sole Proprietorship | |
| Partnership | |
| Corporation | |
| Laissez Faire | |
| Adam Smith | |
| Capitalism | |
| Business Cycle | |
| Depression | |
| Prosperity | |
| Socialism | |
| Karl Marx | |
| Communist Manifesto | |
| Communism | |
| Union | |
| Strike |