Industrial Revolution Vocab Review

A business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person’s home.

• cottage industry
• urban

• suburban

• factory

To take land that had been owned in common by all members of a village and change it to privately owned land – usually with walls, fences or hedges around it.

• enclosure movement
• farming

• rural

• industrial

Geographic area that is located outside towns and cities (countryside) –  not very populated

• urban

• rural

• industrial

• suburban

City life (densely populated)

• rural

• suburban

• urban

• density

The movement of people TO cities; population shift from rural to urban areas.

• urbanization
• industrialization

• organization

• qualification

A shift from an agricultural economy (farming) to one based on industry (manufacturing)

• mobilization

• agriculture

• factories

• industrializaiton

A substandard, multi-family dwelling; usually old and occupied by the poor

• townhomes

• houses

• tenement

• suburbs

an arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled

• factory

• assembly line

• labor

• machines

Child labor

• advantage of the Industrial Revolution

• disadvantage of the Industrial Revolution

Creation of new jobs

• advantage of the Industrial Revolution

• disadvantage of the Industrial Revolution