Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

farming; the process of cultivating plants and raising animals for human consumption

• agriculture

• manufacturing

• industrialization

• Americanization

a turning point in history that leads to significant and lasting political, economic, geographic, and social change

• Rebellion
• Revelation
• Evolution
• Revolution

the process by which an economy is transformed from one that is primarily agricultural to an economy based on manufacturing

• Americanization

• Agriculturalization
• Urbanization
• Industrialization

the process by which individuals and organizations generate new ideas and put them into practice

• Imagination
• Creativity
• Innovation
• Replication

the use of knowledge to invent new devices, tools, methods, and processes

• electronics

• technology

• agriculture

• manufacturing

a human-made waterway that allows boats and ships to pass from one body of water to another

• lake
• ocean
• river
• canal

fabric (cloth) that is woven, such as cotton or linen

• thread
• yarn
• textile
• weave

the amount of something available, such as raw materials or manufactured goods

• inventory
• quantity
• supply
• stock

how much of something people want and are willing to pay for it

• cost
• supply
• demand
• inventory

the process of making products or goods

• creation
• agriculture

• manufacturing
• production