Key Terms from the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions

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Agricultural Revolution

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Use of new farming techniques using fences, crop rotations, and new tools

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Corporation

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Business owned by stockholders who share in the profits but are not responsible for its debts

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Crop Rotation

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Process of rotating what is planted on each part of land each year

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Industrial Revolution

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Greatly increased output of the machine-made goods that began in England in the mid 1700s

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Industrialization

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Process of developing machine production of goods

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Labor Unions

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Workers who joined together in labor associations

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Luddite

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A person who opposed increasing industrialization or new technology

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Mass Production

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Efficient production of large numbers of identical goods

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Stock

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Certain rights of ownership

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Tenement

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Multi-family dwelling in an urban area, normally the poor lived there