Industrial Revolution Vocab

A time of great progress in agriculture and textiles where machines were used to produce goods.

• Assembly Line

• American Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

Production of large quantity of something, often using machinery.

• Cottage Industry

• Mass Production

• Interchangeable parts

• Printing Press

A time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow that made farming easier and faster. The production of food rose dramatically.

• Assembly Line

• Entrepreneur

• Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution

Identical parts of a product that are manufactured to be exactly the same size and shape.

• Cottage Industry

• Mass Production

• Textile

• Interchangeable parts

A person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business.

• Entrepreneur

• Business Person

• Industrialist

• Smart

Each worker and machine does one part, and the parts are put together to make the finished object.

• Assembly Line

• Industrialization

• Entrepreneur

• Industrial Revolution

Products made at home by hand one at a time.

• Interchangeable parts

• Cottage Industry

• Mass Production

• Textile

A type of cloth or woven fabric

• Textile

• T Shirts

• Cottage Industry

• Wool

Industry workers were paid to work in factories, where they operated machines and advanced technologies that took over most of the handiwork.

• Assembly Line

• Factory System

• Cottage Industry

• Industrialization

The process of moving from an agricultural society, in which most goods are handmade, to a society that thrives on machine-manufactured goods.

• Progress

• Industrial Revolution

• Factory System

• Industrialization