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Industrial Revolution Vocab
Industrial Revolution Vocabulary
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9th Grade
09/06/2011

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Term
Factors of Production
Definition
land, labor, and capital
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Union
Definition
an organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests; a labor union
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Assembly Line
Definition
a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled
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Entrepreneur
Definition
a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
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Corporation
Definition
a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
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Textile
Definition
the branch of industry involved in the manufacture of cloth.
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Industrialization
Definition
the developing industries in (a country or region) on a wide scale
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Urbanization
Definition
the process of become a city/ the growing of a city
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Middle Class
Definition
the social group between the upper and working classes, including professional and business workers and their families.
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Human Ingenuity
Definition
the quality of being clever, original, and inventive
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Working Class
Definition
the social group consisting of people who are employed for wages, esp. in manual or industrial work
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