G11 Industrial Revolution Key Terms L1, 2, 3

What is the industrial revolution?

• planting a different crop in the same field each year to allow the soil to regenerate

• great increase in machine production that began in England in the 18th century

• person who organizes, manages, and takes on the financial risk of a business enterprise

What is an enclosure?

• process of developing machine production of goods

• large closed-in field for farming

• building where goods are made

What is crop rotation?

• planting a different crop in the same field each year to allow the soil to regenerate

• process of developing machine production of goods

• person who organizes, manages, and takes on the financial risk of a business enterprise

What does factors of production mean?

• process of developing machine production of goods

• person who organizes, manages, and takes on the financial risk of a business enterprise

• conditions needed to produce goods and services

What is an entrepreneur?

• British engineer who developed a way to mass-produce steel cheaply

• person who organizes, manages, and takes on the financial risk of a business enterprise

Who is Henry Bassemer?

• business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not responsible for its debts

• British engineer who developed a way to mass-produce steel cheaply

What does urbanization mean?

• social class of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers

• city building and the movement of people to cities

Who is included in the Middle Class?

• business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not responsible for its debts

• social class of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers

What is mass production?

• machine parts that are identical and manufactured by machine

• system of manufacturing large quantities of identical items

• different workers doing individual and different tasks

What are interchangeable parts?

• each worker does one step of a manufacturing processes

• machine parts that are identical and manufactured by machine

• different workers doing individual and different tasks