Industrial Revolution Vocabulary
This historical period marked a shift from hand-made to machine-made goods.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This step comes after sourcing in the flow of materials.
What is Processing?
Goods are items you can do these two things with.
What are buy and use?
Coins are made by this U.S. institution.
What is the U.S. Mint?
The Silk Road connected these two continents.
What are Asia and Europe?
This is the process of turning raw materials into finished goods.
What is processing?
A traditional economy relies on these two things.
What are customs and traditions?
These are helpful actions people provide.
What are services?
Paper bills are officially called this.
What are notes?
Along with silk and spices, this precious metal was often traded.
What is gold?
This production system involves workers doing specific tasks in a sequence.
What is the assembly line?
A market economy is based on these two forces.
What are supply and demand?
Goods sent out of a country are called this.
What are exports?
This Founding Father is on the $10 bill.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The Silk Road exchanged goods, culture, ideas, and this.
What is technology?
A place where goods are mass-produced, often using machines.
What is a factory?
A command economy is controlled by this.
What is the government?
This person makes goods or services.
What is a producer?
This bird on the dollar bill holds symbols of peace and war.
What is the bald eagle?
This empire bridged East and West, trading luxury goods and ideas.
What is the Kushan Empire?
This modern innovation involves machines taking over tasks once done by people.
What is automation?
This step comes at the end of the flow of materials, after distribution.
What is consumption?
This person buys and uses goods or services.
What is a consumer?
This U.S. motto means "Out of many, one."
What is E Pluribus Unum?
This Roman currency helped trade throughout the empire.
What is a denarius?