Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

the money an investor earns above what he or she put in when the business does well

• free enterprise

• consumer

• stock

• profit

a financial share of ownership of a company

• stock

• profit

• monopoly

• consumer

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

• telegraph

• Industrial Revolution

• urbanization

• free enterprise

a company that has control of an entire industry

• stock

• urbanization

• monopoly

• corporation

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

• urbanization

• free enterprise

• corporation

• industrial revolution

someone who buys or uses goods and services

• telegraph

• entrepreneur

• consumer

• profit

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.

• monopoly

• refinery

• assembly line

• urbanization

the growth or spreading of cities

• corporation

• entrepreneur

• assembly line

• urbanization

a communications system that uses coded bursts of electricity to send messages over long distances

• urbanization

• assembly line

• Morse Code

• free enterprise

a type of factory that turns oil into different products, such as gasoline

• refinery

• urbanization

• monopoly

• corporation