Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

This greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England in the middle 1700s and lasted till about the mid 1800s

• Agricultural revolution

• Transportation revolution

• Communications revolution

• Industrial Revolution

This movement changed agriculture through the cultivation of larger fields resulted in improved agricultural methods and caused many small farmers to give up farming and move to the cities

• Crop rotation

• factory

• factors of production

• enclosure movement

In the 1700s this practice resulted in more beneficial and sustainable agriculture which was better for the health of the soil.

• Enclosures

• Crop rotation

• Entrepreneur

• The mechanical reaper

Which of the following is NOT an example of the resources required for industrialization?

• water power and coal to fuel new machines

• Skilled artisans who build guitars by hand using traditional methods

• iron ore to construct machines, tools and buildings

• Rivers for inland transportation

The factors of production, the resources needed to produce goods and services that the Industrial Revolution required included:

• land, labor, and Enlightenment

• labor, capital, Enlightenment

• land, labor and capital

• labor, capital and nationalism

Early factories required what sort of power source?

• Horsepower

• waterpower

• dynamite

• the use of coal

A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business

• Manager

• Boss

• Entrepreneur

• farmer

A British engineer who invented a cheap way to mass-produce steel

• Henry Bessemer

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• Matthew Hendrix

This term refers to city building and the migration of people to cities

• Immigration

• Gentrification

• urbanization

• zonification

A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, businesspeople, and wealthy farmers

• Managers

• urbanization

• Middle Class

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