Industrial Revolution and Reform Vocabulary

Free Enterprise

• the process of economic development based on factory production

• creating new ideas, products or methods

• economic system in which consumers and producers are free to make economic decisions and choices

• legally ending of the practice of enslaving people

Innovation

• creating new ideas, products or methods

• the process of economic development based on factory production

• An investor is any person who commits capital with the expectation of financial returns

• artificial (man-made) waterway

Industrialization

• creating new ideas, products or methods

• using machines in the production process

• Crossing a continent (especially of a railroad line)

• the process of economic development based on factory production

Investor

• any person who commits capital with the expectation of financial returns

• artificial (man-made) waterway

• the right to vote

• the process of migration to large, densely populated areas, generally cities

Urbanization

• legally ending of the practice of enslaving people

• the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another

• the process of migration to large, densely populated areas, generally cities

• artificial (man-made) waterway

Abolition

• using machines in the production process

• legally ending of the practice of enslaving people

• the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another

• artificial (man-made) waterway

Mechanization

• Crossing a continent (especially of a railroad line)

• the process of migration to large, densely populated areas, generally cities

• economic system in which consumers and producers are free to make economic decisions and choices

• using machines in the production process

Transcontinental

• Crossing a continent (especially of a railroad line)

• An investor is any person who commits capital with the expectation of financial returns

• the right to vote

• artificial (man-made) waterway

Transportation

• the process of migration to large, densely populated areas, generally cities

• An investor is any person who commits capital with the expectation of financial returns

• the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another

• the process of migration to large, densely populated areas, generally cities

Suffrage

• artificial (man-made) waterway

• Going through great suffering

• the right to vote

• the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another