Industrial Revolution and Reform Vocabulary

economic system in which consumers and producers are free to make economic decisions and choices

• free enterprise

• investor

creating a new ideas, products or methods

• innovation

• industrialization

the process of economic development based on factory production

• industrialization

• mechanization

the process of migration to large, densely populated areas, generally cities

• urbanization

• ruralization

legally ending the practice of enslaving people

• abolition

• immigration

using machines in the production process

• mechanization

• transcontinental

refusing to obey laws believed to be unjust

• civil disobedience

• suffrage

the right to vote in an election

• suffrage

• investor

to come to a country to live there

• immigration

• urbanization

the act or process of moving people or things from one place to another

• transportation

• transcontinental