Industrial Revolution
Economics
People
Social
Inventions/ Places
Andrew Carnegie
bourgeoisie
Henry Ford
James Watt
Karl Marx
John D. Rockefeller
Richard Trevithick
Robert Fulton
entrepreneurer
immigrant
labor
laborer
labor movement
merchant
middle class
migration
modernization
canal
cotton gin
industrial revolution
enclosure
infrastructure
invention
locomotive
mill
railroad
reaper
proletariat
revolution
rural
automation
capital
assembly line
capitalism
agriculture
competition
consumer goods
corporation
cottage industry
demand
economy of scale
factory
free enterprise
industrialization
industry
invest
laissez faire
manufacture
market economy
mass production
mechanization
monopoly
natural resources
production
profit
socialism
stock
supply
union
utilitarianism
shuttle
steamboat
spinning jenny
steam engine
technology
telephone
telegraph
textile
tenement
treadle
textile mill
vulcanize
specialization
standard of living
shareholder
strike
urbanization
working class
a type of lever that is operated with your foot
object or artifact created by weaving, felting, or knitting fibers
electronic equipment that transmits sound over distances
external- combustion engine when heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder
a boat propelled by a steam engine
a type of farm machine that gathers crops from fields
a facility for manufacturing
a creation or object coming from study and experimentation
simple facilities used for the functioning of a country
transformation from an agricultural to industrial nation
a long, skinny strip of water for boats or irrigation
a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
a confined area in a structure
a self-propelled vehicle that drags a train along a track
line that is the for a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
a spinning machine with many spindles
the application of science to commerce or industry
a messy apartment barely meeting standards
subject to vulcanization
a factory for making textiles
invention used to communicate at a distance with a wire
the need and desire to buy goods and services
the savings in the cost of production that is from mass production
smaller scale industry that is carried on by family members using their own equipment
a person who holds shares of stock in a corporation
business firm noticed by law as a single body
goods for direct use
economic system based on private ownership of assets
mechanical system in a factory where an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
wealth/ riches in the form of money or property
to lay out money or resources and expect a profit
put together out of artificial or natural factors
production of large amounts of an article
the act of using technology to control a process
resources supplied by nature
manufacturing, mining, or growing something for sale
economic system based on state ownership of capital
capital raised by corporation through shares
economy relying on markets to locate resources
a plant with facilities for manufacturing
business relation when two parties compete to gain customers
the practice of taking care of the land or raising stock
the act of forcing the control of equipment
the development of commercial enterprise
action of making goods and services for sale
a doctrine that government should not interfere in commerce
economy that relies on market forces to determine prices
market where there are lots of buyers but one seller
gaining wealth over time
offering your goods and services for sale
the doctrine that the useful is the good
organization of employees that bargains with the employer
level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to people
social class comprising people who do manual labor
someone who organizes a business venture
productive work, mainly physical work for wages
organized attempt by workers to improve their status (labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
a businessperson engaged in retail trade
movement of persons from one group to another
a drastic change in ways of thinking
refusal to work (protest against low pay or bad conditions)
social process when city grows
area known with farming or as a country life
social class between lower and upper class
someone who comes to a country to settle there
someone who works with their hands
social class between lower and upper class
act of making up-to-date appearances or behavior
making something suitable for a specific purpose
social class with those who work for wages
American inventor who designed the first commercially successful steamboat and the first steam warship (1765-1815)
English engineer who built the first railway locomotive
founder of modern communism
U. S industrialist and philanthropist who established education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
U.S manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
U.S industrialist who made a fortune in oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)