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Industrial Rev.
Vocabulary for Industrial Revolution Unit.
Question | Answer |
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Enclosure | Process in which landowners took over and combined lands formerly shared by peasant farmers. |
Crop Rotation | The practice of planting different crops during different years in the same field. |
Yield | Amount of goods produced |
Natural Resources | Items that come from the earth-- water, wood, oil |
Capital | Money used to invest in businesses or goods used to produce other goods (machines used to produce cloth) |
Entreprenuers | People who ran and took the financial risk for new businesses |
Cottage Industry | Process in which goods are made in homes (not factories) |
Urbanization | The movement of people to the cities for jobs in factories |
Tenements | Apartment building were the factory workers lived (slums) |
Labor Unions | Groups that worked for worker's rights on the job |
Industrialization | Development of using the factory system to produce goods |
Socialism | Economic system in which the people as a whole own the means of production -- farms, factories, railways, and other businesses that produce and distribute goods |
Proletariat | The working class, have-nots |