MWH Industrial Rev Word Scramble
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Unions | an organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions |
Crop rotation | the practice of growing different crops in your fields to preserve the nutrients in the soil |
Nutrients | a substance or ingredient that promotes growth, provides energy, and maintains life |
Capital | money used to invest in a business or product |
Selective breeding | choosing specific animals to breed based on desirable traits |
Strike | to stop work in order to force an employer to comply with demands |
Labor | work, or the working class |
White lung disease | disease that comes from inhaling fibers which then coat your lungs, found in factories |
Industrial Revolution | the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. |
Factors of Production | land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship - things you need to build an economy |
Enclosure | the legal process in England of consolidating (enclosing) small landholdings into larger farms. |
Spinning jenny | a machine for spinning with more than one spindle at a time, patented by James Hargreaves in 1770. |
Spinning mule | a machine used to spin cotton and other fibers. |
Entrepreneurs | person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. |
Factories | a building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine |
Karl Marx | father of Communism, wrote the Communist Manifesto with Frederick Engles |
Laissez-faire | government does not interfere with business, a key part of captitalism |
Classless | the communist idea of a society with no social classes, everyone is equal |
Adam Smith | father of capitalism, wrote the Wealth of Nations, said government should stay out of business |
Agricultural Revolution | a period of technological improvement and increased crop productivity that occurred during the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe. |
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