ELL History Ch 19-Industrial Revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 economics | having to do with business and money |
| factory | a place where people work with machines to produce goods |
| produce | to make something |
| industry | producing things with machines |
| capital | money used to make more money; money used to start a business |
| natural resources | things such as coal, ore, and water that come from nature |
| ore | a rock that contains metal |
| Industrial Revolution | the important changes that took place in the way work was done during the 18th and 19th century |
| England | place where the Industrial Revolution began |
| revolution | big change |
| power | strength |
| invention | new thing that has been created for the first time |
| textile | cloth that workers weave from cotton, silk or wool |
| shuttle | part of a weaving machine that carries the thread from one side to the other |
| spindle | twists thread into yarn |
| spinning jenny | spinning wheel with eight spindles |
| manufacturer | a person who hires people to work with machines to make something to sell |
| cotton gin | machine that allowed workers to separate seed from cotton very fast |
| export | to send a product out of one country and into another to sell |
| thread | a small string of cloth |
| fiber | a thread of cotton, silk, wool or other material |
| mass production | a way of making large amounts of the same thing in a factory |
| assemble | to put the parts of something together |
| identical | exactly the same |
| impurities | things in iron that cause it to break down easily |
| coke | very pure coal |
| steel | a very strong type of iron |
| transportation | the movement of people, natural resources and things from one place to another |
| locomotive | a self-propelled vehicle that runs on rails |
| canal | man-made waterway |
| efficient | not wasting time or energy |
| mine | hole in the ground where people take out coal |
| boiler | tank that heats water |
| pressure | a force produced by pressing on something |
| raw materials | materials such as cotton, wood, iron, and oil that workers use to make things |
| village | small town |
| workshop | another name for a factory |
| merchant | a person who sells things |
| skill | a talent |
| mill | another name for a factory |
| injure | to hurt someone or to hurt oneself |
| labor union | an organized group of workers who try to improve the working conditions in a factory |
| sanitation | the process of dealing with human waste |
| improve | make something better |
| property | something that is owned, usually land |
| internal combustion engine | an engine that burns gasoline to produce power |
| vote | to choose, usually a political leader |
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