Unit 5, Chapter 1 Vocabulary

something that can be used to make or create a product, such as cotton for clothing

• loom

• weave

• investor

• raw material

to create fabric by lacing together threads

• raw material

• weave

• loom

• capital

crossing the entire continent

• transcontinental

• weave

• industrialism

• telegraph

a system in which a society's economy is based on machines and factories

• loom

• raw material

• industrialism

• investor

an apartment building, usually located in a city and meeting only the minimum safety and comfort standards

• union

• monopoly

• tenement

• loom

a tool used to weave fabric

• monopoly

• urbanization

• investor

• loom

an organization formed by workers to win and protect workers' rights

• union

• tenement

• industrialiam

• transcontinental

the total control of an industry

• union

• capital

• telegraph

• monopoly

a machine that communicates messages over long distances by sending signals through wires

• loom

• telegraph

• investor

• union

a person who puts money into a business with the goal of making more money

• monopoly

• tenement

• investor

• urbanization