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Industrial Rev
Vocab
| Term | Connection |
|---|---|
| Sabotage | intentionally hurting or stopping strikers |
| black lists | a list of people or things that are regarded as unacceptable or untrustworthy and should be excluded or avoided. |
| monopoly | A monopoly is a business that is the only provider of a good or service, giving it a tremendous competitive advantage over any other company that tries to provide a similar product or service. Some companies become monopolies through vertical integration. |
| union | a group of states or nations united into one political body, as that of the American colonies at the time of the Revolution, that of England and Scotland in 1707, or that of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. |
| corporation | A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity; a legal person in legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes |
| stock | a document that represents a percentage of the value of a company. |
| trust | Trusts are commonly used to hold inheritances for the benefit of children and other family members, for example |
| collective bargaining | a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers. |
| the bessemer process | the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace. The key principle is the removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation by blowing air through the molten iron. |
| steam boat | Steamboat, any watercraft propelled by steam, but more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle wheel steamboat widely used on rivers in the 19th century, and particularly on the Mississippi River and its principal tributaries in the United States. |
| cotton gin | a cotton gin is a machine that pulled cotton fibers from the cotton seed |
| battery | the act of beating someone or something with successive blows |
| pasterization | Pasteurization is the process of applying low heat to kill pathogens and inactivate spoilage enzymes. It does not kill bacterial spores, so pasteurization does not truly sterilize products. |
| photograph | method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light-sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”), was first used in the 1830s. |
| sethoscope | The stethoscope is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening to internal sounds |
| telegraph | telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. |
| interchangeable parts | identical components that can be substituted one for another, particularly important in the history of manufacturing. Mass production, which transformed the organization of work, |
| division of child labor | department in charge of trying to prevent child labor from occuring. |
| child labor | a child who is most likely being forced to work |
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