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a large farm in a warm/hot climate that produces one or 2 crops (cotton, tobacco, sugar cane) for sale to more developed places
What is a plantation?
manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution.
What is a cottage industry?
synonym for "to work"
What is labor?
an engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.
What is steam engine?
to make something, usually on a large scale using machinery
What is manufacture?
a series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods
What was the Industrial Revolution?
relating to FARM AREAS and life in small towns in the country
What is a rural area?
a building with machinery for a manufacturing process
What is a factory?
What is a mill?
to change for the better
What is reform?
production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks
What is an assembly line?
the environment of the workplace
What are working conditions?
an association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages
What is a union?
a building or set of building with facilities for manufacturing or producing goods
What is a factory?
a big city. in or relating to or characteristic of a city. opposite of rural.
What is urban?
a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller
What is a monopoly?
cloth. a fabric made by weaving threads together, then used to make clothing, sheets, curtains, etc.
What is a textile?
to make something, especially on a large scale using machinery
What is manufacture?
a new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation
What is an invention?
the buying and selling of good on a large scale
What is commerce?
all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service
What is an industry? Ex: textile industry, construction industry, lumber industry, tech industry.
identical components (parts) that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing
What are interchangeable parts?
a poor-quality building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety
What is a tenement?
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
What is a urbanization?
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
What is capitalism?
the development of industries for the machine production of goods (changing from hand-made to machine-made)
What is industrialization?