Industrialization Vocab

production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines.

• mass production

• urbanization

• nativism

• sweatshop

negative idea that industrial leaders stole from their workers by giving them low wages and were greedy.

• Robber Barons

• Captains of Industry

exclusive control by one company over an entire industry

• Monopoly

• Urbanization

• Collective Bargaining

• Suburbs

the transition to new manufacturing processes in Britain, continental Europe, and the US from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840

• russian revolution

• scientific revolution

• glorious revolution

• industrial revolution

a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labor

• factory systems

• urbanization

• capitalism

• bourgeoisie

the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labor power

• plebians

• progressives

• proletariat

• peninsulares

Making a lot of a product quickly and cheaply

• monopoly

• labor

• mass production

• corporation

The movement of people from rural areas to cities, often in search of better job opportunities.

• A) Urbanization

• B) Industrialization

• C) Globalization

• D) Colonization

A system where the government owns and controls the means of production.

• A) Capitalism

• B) Socialism

• C) Feudalism

• D) Mercantilism

The economic policy of restraining trade between states through methods such as tariffs on imported goods.

• A) Free Trade

• B) Protectionism

• C) Liberalism

• D) Isolationism