Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

a dispute-

• disagreement

• discussion

to add, or join together

• addition

• annex

Industrial Revolution –

• the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation

• a war to produce goods

cotton gin

• a cotton wheel

• a machine that separates cottonseeds from raw cotton fibers

a large farm area on which crops are raised

• plantation

• field

a person under the control of another person who is forced to work without pay

• slave owner

• slave

• worker

blockade

• to isolate an area with enemy ships or forces to prevent the entrance and exit of traffic and commerce

• to allow ships to pass through

supply –

• the amount of a particular economic good or service that a consumer or group of consumers wants to

  purchase at a given time

• the total amount of a good or service available for purchase

demand-

• the amount of a particular economic good or service that a consumer or group of consumers wants to

  purchase at a given time

• the total amount of a good or service available for purchase

the act of making a product from raw materials

• manufacturing

• industrialization