Industrialization Vocabulary

Laissez-faire

• belief that the government should have very little involvement in economics

• belief that the government should direct the economy

• belief that the economy does not matter or is not important

• belief that the economy should be determined by employees only

Skilled Worker

• worker that has no education

• worker that has a specific skill

• worker that has no specific skill

• worker that can easily be replaced

Unskilled Worker

• worker that does not have to go into the office daily

• worker that takes specific training to complete their work

• worker that has a college degree

• worker doing a job that does not require advanced training

Tariff

• a specific law that applies only to states in the south

• a limit on how many immigrants can enter the country

• a type of law that leads to jail time

• a tax on imported or exported good

Assembly Line

• a hedge that builds a clear barrier to a facility

• A line of machines, equipment, workers, etc., in a factory that builds a product by passing work from one station to the next until the product is finished

• connecting pieces of a puzzle together in record speed

• standing in line to get food

Commerce

• using machines to complete a product

• teamwork used to reach a specific goal

• to give a speech at a graduation

• trade

Corporation

• an evil empire that seeks to control the world

• A business owned by shareholders who possess ownership rights to the firm’s profits

• a feat of innovation that allows for faster production

• a company that only makes one thing and then goes out of business

Industrialization

• organization of workers to fight for rights

• the movement to service industry

• The large-scale introduction of manufacturing

• trade

Infrastructure

• The basic equipment and structures that a country needs such as roads

• a law that controls how to do something

• fragments of a building after war

• a poster of a leader used to persuade

Horizontal Integration

• Working from a laying down position

• Bringing in your family to help you run your business

• Owning all steps of the process for production

• Owning many of the businesses in a certain field