Industrial Revolution Vocab

The transition from creating goods by hand to using machines

• Industrial Revolution

• Political Revolution

• American Revolution

• French Revolution

Anything that is made from cloth

• Text/writing

• Cotton Gin

• Textiles

• Woodwork

When workers have one task that they repeat over and over to create large amounts of products

• Factory

• Industrial Revolution

• Cotton Gin

• Assembly Line

An invention that helped speed up the production of cotton by removing cotton seeds faster

• Spinning Jenny

• Cotton Gin

• Factory Work

• Urban

The transition from goods being made at home to being made in factories, mines, and other locations

• Factory System

• Rural Work

• Labor Unions

• Child Labor

An invention to power machines by steam; steam was created by burning coal

• Factory

• Rural

• Urban

• Steam Engine

Mechanical parts that can be used in more than one machine and used for various reasons

• Iron

• Spinning Jenny

• Interchangeable Parts

• Textiles

The countryside

• Rural

• Urban

• Industries

• Factory

The process of more people moving to towns/cities

• Rural

• Industrialization

• Assembly Line

• Urbanization

How much of a product a business will make

• Supply

• Demand

• Profit

• Bankrupt