Chapter 12 Industrialization and Progressivism

Agrarian Society

Any society where economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland.

Industrialization

Period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into industrial society.

Urbanization

The movement of people from rural areas to cities.

Capitalism

Economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

Corporation

A company or group of people or an organization authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized such as in law.

Transcontinental Railroad

Connected the Nation’s East and West Coasts by railway

Bessemer Process

The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production o steel.

Mass Production

The production of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery

Agricultural Mechanization

The process of using agriculture machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm work productivity.

Cyrus McCormick

Invented the reaper, the horse-drawn machine used to harvest grain efficiently.