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Industrialization
Vocabulary for grade 6 unit on urbanization, industrialization and immigration
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| natural resources | materials from nature used to produce a product |
| product | item made in a factory |
| market | a place where products can be bought |
| industrialization | process of developing the machine production of goods |
| industry | the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
| labor | work |
| innovation | Something that is new or is a change; the act of introducing a new method, idea, device, etc. |
| trade | business of buying and selling or exchanging items |
| agricultural | farming |
| urbanization | growth of cities |
| infrastructure | physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a city (buildings, roads, power supplies, etc.) |
| regulate | control with rules and/or laws |
| tenement | apartment house consisting of multiple small, dirty units, typically rundown |
| captains of industry | men in charge of big businesses during the age of industrialization (John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan) |