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Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
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10th Grade
02/24/2017

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Agricultural Revolution

 

The Agricultural Revolution is a change with new discoveries, invetions, or technology changing production.

Definition

a significant change in agriculture that occurs when there are discoveries, inventions, or new technologies that change production

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Bourgeoisie

 

The Bourgeoisie were rich and educated people who owned land. 

Definition

the people in a society who are rich, educated, own land etc, according to Marxism

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Capital

Capital helps to start businesses or to produce more wealth.

Definition
money or property, especially when it is used to start a business or to produce more wealth

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Capitalism

 

Capitalism is a system where most private owners own businesses, and not the government. 

Definition
an economic and political system in which businesses belong mostly to private owners, not to the government [image]
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Communism

 

Communism is a system where production of all food and goods is controlled by the government.

Definition

a political system in which the government controls the production of all food and goods, and there is no privately owned property

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Crop rotation

 

Crop rotation is a practice of swithcing crops that is grown each year to preserve the quality of soil. 

Definition
the practice of changing the crops that you grow in a field each year to preserve the good qualities in the soil [image]
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Economy

 

Economy is a system where the country prduces and uses its money and goods. 

Definition
the system by which a country's money and goods are produced and used, or a country considered in this way [image]
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Factors of production

 

Factors of production are different collections of resources that contribute to the production of goods or services.

Definition
a collection of various resources which contribute to producing goods or services, which fall into three main groups - land, labor, and capital [image]
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Laissez Faire

 

Laissez Faire is a principle allowing the economy or private businesses to develop without state control. 

Definition

the principle that the government should allow the economy or private businesses to develop without any state control or influence

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Industrialize

 

Industrialize is the development of a lot of industry in a country or place. 

Definition
when a country or place develops a lot of industry [image]
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Industrial Revolution

 

Industiral Revolution was a period in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and America where factories had established and machines were invented.

Definition
the period in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and the USA when machines were invented and the first factories were established [image]
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Natural resource

 

Natural resources exist in nature that are able to be used by people. 

Definition

things that exist in nature and can be used by people, for example oil, trees etc

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Proletariat

 

Proletariat are class of workers owning no property, but work for wages. 

Definition

the class of workers who own no property and work for wages, especially in factories, building things etc - used in socialist writings

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Socialism

 

Socialism is a system where industries are owned by the government, and taxes that take wealth from the richer and are given to the poor.

Definition

an economic and political system in which large industries are owned by the government, and taxes are used to take some wealth away from richer citizens and give it to poorer citizens

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Subsistence

 

Subsistence is the ability of staying alive with only having just enough money or food.

Definition

the condition of only just having enough money or food to stay alive

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Textile

 

Textile was woven cloth made in large quantities used by people in businesses of cloth making.

Definition

any type of woven cloth that is made in large quantities, used especially by people in the business of making clothes etc

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