Industrial Revolution - Key Terms

Enclosure

________: The process of taking over and consolidating, or combining, lands formerly shared by peasants.

Anesthetic

________: A drug that prevents pain during surgery.

Smelt

________: Melt in order to get the pure matter away from its waste matter.

Capital

________: Money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise.

18th century

Putting- out system: system developed in the ________ in which tasks were distributed to individuals who completed the work in their own homes; also known as cottage industry.

Turnpike

________: Private road built by entrepreneurs who charged a toll to travelers to use it.

Entrepreneur

________: Person who assumes financial risk in order to make a profit.

Manchester

________: Industrial city in northern Britain that was part of the first major railway line; it went from Liverpool to ________.

Liverpool

________: Industrial city in northern Britain that was part of the first major railway line; it went from ________ to Manchester.

James Watt

________: Scottish man who invented the steam engine.

Industrial Revolution

________: A period beginning in the 1700s in which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machinery and sources of energy shifted from human or animal power to steam and electricity.

Eli Whitney

________: Lived 1765- 1825 and his main invention was the cotton gin which was important to the industrial revolution because it boosted the economy of the South and made the textile industry more efficient and profitable.

steam engine

The ________ was a vital source of power for the Industrial Revolution.

Enterprise

________: Business organization in such areas as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories.

Capital

________ is very important because it changes the power and economic advantages between countries.

Putting-out system

system developed in the 18th century in which tasks were distributed to individuals who completed the work in their own homes; also known as cottage industry