Industrial Revolution Vocabulary Review

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something found in nature

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natural resources

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What is a 'free market'?

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Market regulated by the natural laws of supply and demand

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someone who creates a new business and who takes on all the risks and rewards of starting and running it

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entrepreneur

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a time period in history when there was a change from doing work by hand to work done by machines

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Industrial Revolution

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describes an economy in which people are free to start their own businesses or to do whatever work they want

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free enterprise

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a factory system in which a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers, each of whom does one part of the whole job.

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assembly line

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the growth or spreading of cities

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urbanization

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someone who creates a new business and who takes on all the risks and rewards of starting and running it

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entrepreneur

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farming; the process of cultivating plants and raising animals for human consumption

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agriculture

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the process by which an economy is transformed from one that is primarily agricultural to an economy based on manufacturing

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Industrialization