Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

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

• Agricultural Revolution

• Urbanization

• Industrial Revolution

• Mass production

City building and the movement of people to cities

• Agricultural Revolution

• Urbanization

• Industrial Revolution

• Mass production

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

• Agricultural Revolution

• Urbanization

• Industrial Revolution

• Mass production

Efficient production of large numbers of identical goods

• Agricultural Revolution

• Urbanization

• Industrial Revolution

• Mass production

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

• Labor Unions

• Stock

• Tenement

• Corporation

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

• Labor Union

• Stock

• Tenement

• Corporation

The process of developing machine production of goods

• Industrialization

• Urbanization

• Industrial Revolution

• Mass production

Workers who joined together in labor associations

• Luddite

• Corporation

• Utopia

• Labor Union

Clothes

• Textiles

• Stock

• Industrialization

• Tenements

Certain rights of ownership

• Textile

• Stock

• Luddite

• Tenement