Unit 6A:Industrial Revolution Vocab Quiz 23-24

An organization formed by workers to strive for better wages and working conditions

• Labor Union

• Interchangeable Parts

• Bourgeoisie

• Strike

an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and operated for profit with minimal or no government interference

• Mass production

• Division of labor

• Laissez-faire capitalism

• Interchangeable Parts

Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply

• Mass Production

• Factors of production

• Enclosure Movement

• Urbanization

A time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow made farming easier and faster. The production of food rose dramatically.

• Common land

• Enclosure Movement

• The Agricultural Revolution

• Urbanization

Movement of people from rural areas to cities

• Factors of production

• Division of labor

• Textiles

• Urbanization

A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793

• Locomotive

• Cotton Gin

• Flying Shuttle

• Spinning Jenny

a type of cloth or woven fabric

• cotton

• Textiles

• paper

• steam

an engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.

• Bourgeoisie

• Steam Engine

• Cotton Gin

• Flying Shuttle

the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.

• socialism

• Division of labor

• Mass production

• capitolism

Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing

• Mass production

• coal and oil

• Proletariats

• Interchangeable parts