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Industrial Revolution
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History
10th Grade
02/24/2017

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Agricultural Revolution

Agricultural Revolution changed the future

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

Bourgeoisie is like the king

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

Capital is used to start a business

 
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money or property, especially when it is used to start a business or to produce more wealth [image]
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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economical system

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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 when the government takes control of everything

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

Crop rotation is used to change the crops

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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 where a contrys money is held

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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 is land labor and capital

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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 of the government

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

Industrialize is when a country develops an industry

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

Industrial Revolution a period of time where inventions were made

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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 resource is like trees and oil

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

Proletariat is made up of poor people

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

Socialism is were large industries are owned by the government

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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 [image]
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Subsistence

Subsistence is when someone only has enough resources to stay alive

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the condition of only just having enough money or food to stay alive [image]
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Textile

Textile is a piece of cloth

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