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History vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution | A time of greaty increased output of machine-made goods that began in England in mid 1700's |
| Enclosure | fields where farmers experimented with productive seeding and harvesting |
| crop rotation | one of the best developments by farmers |
| industrualization | process of developing machine production of goods |
| Factors of production | Resources needed to produce goods and services that the Industrual Revolution required |
| Factory | Large buildings where merchants set up machines |
| Entrepreneur | A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the rights of the risks of a buissness |
| Henry Bessmer | British engineer who invented a cheap way to mass-produce steel |
| Urbanization | City building and the migration of people to cities |
| Middle class | A socail class made of skilled workers, proffesionals, buissness people, and wealthy farmers |
| Interchangeable parts | Identical machine made parts |
| Assembly line | Production moves in a line from one side to the other. |
| Division of labor | allows workers to make many iteams quickley. |
| Specialization | Economic concept that refers to separting tasks |
| Economic Interdependence | where people rely on one other for resources, goods and services they need |
| Stock | certain rights of ownership |
| corporation | business owned by stockholders who share profits but are not responsable for debts |
| Laissez faire | Economic poloicy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions |
| Union | Works joined togeather in voluntary labor associations |
| strike | refuse to work |
| capitalism | Economic system in which the feetons of production are privtely owened and money is invested to make more profit |
| socialism | The factors of production are owned by the public operate for welfare of all |
| communism | a form of complete socialism in which the means of production are owned by people |