Vocabulary
A person who invests in new business in the hope of making a profit
Entrepreneur
With this, messages could be sent in a short amount of time
Telegraph
Wrote the "Wealth of Nations"
Adam Smith
Money or wealth used to invest in business.
Capital
Place where the Industrial Revolution began
England
Movement of people from rural area to cities
Urbanization
Allowed people and goods to be moved long distances
Railway/train/railroad
Wrote the Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Capitalism, free enterprise, laissez-faire, and open market are synonyms for this word
Free market
These water features allowed for quick transportation and distribution of goods.
Rivers
Utilitarianism
This could spin thread into yarn much
faster than a person.
Spinning Jenny
Wrote fictional stories about the working and living conditions of the working class, including orphans
Charles Dickens
A classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole
Communism
Where factories were built, jobs were sought and urban areas massively increased
Cities
This began in the 1700s where production shifted from hand tools to machinery powered by steam and electricity
Industrial Revolution
Provided an efficient source of industrial power.
Used to run factory machines, trains, and
steamboats
Steam engine
Developed vaccines and a process called pasteurization that killed disease in milk
Louis Pasteur
Businesses operate with little to no government interference
Laissez Faire
A negative effect of the industrial revolution
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Organization of workers who negotiate and fight for better pay and working conditions
Labor Unions
Water powered spinning machine that enabled mass production of cotton yarn
Water frame
Landowners and aristocrats were part of this social class
Upper class
Name a communist country that exists today
China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba
A positive effect of the Industrial Revolution
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