Second Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

What is the meaning of the word loom?

• money or resources used to produce goods and services

• a tool used to weave fabric

• the total control of an industry

• relating to the countryside

What is the meaning of transcontinental

• crossing the entire continent

• to create fabric by lacing together

• a machine that communicates messages over long distance by sending signals through wires

• the total control of an industry

What is the meaning of industrialism?

• the total control of an industry

• the process of a region changing to have more or large cities or urban areas

• money or resources used to produce goods and services

• a system in which a society's economy is based on machines and factories

What is the meaning of capital?

• the total control of an industry

• a system in which a society's economy is based on machines and factories

• money or resources used to produce goods and services

• an organization formed by workers to win and protect workers' rights

What is the meaning of investor?

• money or resources used to produce goods and services

• the total control of an industry

• an organization formed by workers to win and protect workers' rights

• person who puts money into a business with the the goal of making more money

What is the meaning of monopoly?

• a system in which a society's economy is based on machines and factories

• the total control of an industry

• money or resources used to produce goods and services

• crossing the entire continent

What is the meaning of union?

• an organization formed by workers to win and protect workers' rights

• a system in which a society's economy is based on machines and factories

• something that can be used to make or create a product such as cotton for clothing

• a machine that communicates messages over long distances by sending signals through wires

What is the meaning of urbanization?

• the total control of an industry

• crossing the entire continent

• the process of a region changing to have more or larger cities or urban areas

• relating to the countryside

What is the meaning of tenement?

• a machine that communicates messages over long distances by sending signals through wires

• an apartment building usually located in a city and meeting only the minimum safety and comfort standards

• something that can be used to make or create a product such as cotton for clothing

• money or resources used to produce goods and services

What is the meaning of the word weave?

• to create fabric by lacing together threads

• relating the the countrysides

• a system in which society's economy is based on machines and factories

• relating to the countryside