Industry
The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one that is dominated by industry and machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
an estate on which crops are cultivated by resident labor; a colony.
A Natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
What is fossil fuel?
Was a widespread in western Europe in which merchant employers "put out" materials to rural producers.
What is the Domestic System?
Most important city or town of a country or region.
What is capital?
The unprecented increase in agricultural production due to increases in labor and land productivity.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
A person who organizes a business taking on greater financial risks in order to operate the business.
Who is an Entrepreneur?
A set of tracks made from steel, passengers and freight trains run on them.
What are Railroads?
Country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What is capitalism?
The belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
What is Mercantilism?
Usd for pumping water out of rivers, driving rotary mine hoists, and as stationary engines for pulling trucks along railway tracks.
What is the steam engine?
Children working above the correct amount of hours and threatens their physical and mental wellbeing.
What is Child Labor?
An excavation of the earth for extracting coal.
What are coal mines?
Were essentially the abolition of the open field system of agriculture.
What is the Enclosure Acts?
The sea journey was undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
a building that houses spinning/weaving machinery for the production of yarn/cloth from cotton.
What are texile mills?
What is the name of a voluntary association of workers?
What is a Union?
An artifical waterway.
What are Canals?
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
What is socialism?
The process of making an area filled with more cities and towns.
What is Urbanization?
cotton spinning, so it allowed more threads and yarn to be produced by fewer spinners.
What is Spinning Jenny?
Improved the steam engine and created a number of industrial technologies.
Who is James Watt?
Yarn/Fibers are produced and processed into usable products.
A parliamentary grant to the sovereign for state needs.
What are subsides?
Seling of African Slaves by Europeans that happened in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?