Industrial Age Vocabulary

The rapid growth of cities

• industrial revolutionindustrial revolution

• immigration

• urbanization

The Factory method in which work moves past stationary workers who perform a single task.

• factors of production

• assembly line

• consolidation

• urbanization

A person who starts a business.

• stock holder

• corporation

• immigrant

• entrepreneur

The practice of combining different companies into one.

• assembly line

• corporation

• consolidation

• urbanization

Powerful individuals who controlled the railway lines in the U.S.

• Railroad Barons

• entrepreneur

• immigrant

• stock holder

Someone who invests into a company by buying stock

• entrepreneur

• Shareholder

• Railroad barons

• corporation

Time period in the 1800's in which handmade goods were replaced by machine made goods.

• American Revolution

• Reconstruction

• Industrial Revolution

• The Great Depression

The first car to be massed produced was the

• Model T

• Chevy Uplander

• Dodge charger

• Toyota Camry

Someone who moves to another country to live is called

• shareholder

• vacationer

• immigrant

• entrepreneur

Shares of ownership a company sells to individuals is called

• stock

• corporation

• dividend

• factors of production