________: The process of taking over and consolidating, or combining, lands formerly shared by peasants.
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Anesthetic
________: A drug that prevents pain during surgery.
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Smelt
________: Melt in order to get the pure matter away from its waste matter.
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Capital
________: Money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise.
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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.
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Turnpike
________: Private road built by entrepreneurs who charged a toll to travelers to use it.
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Entrepreneur
________: Person who assumes financial risk in order to make a profit.
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Manchester
________: Industrial city in northern Britain that was part of the first major railway line; it went from Liverpool to ________.
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Liverpool
________: Industrial city in northern Britain that was part of the first major railway line; it went from ________ to Manchester.
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James Watt
________: Scottish man who invented the steam engine.
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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.
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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.
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steam engine
The ________ was a vital source of power for the Industrial Revolution.
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Enterprise
________: Business organization in such areas as shipping, mining, railroads, or factories.
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Capital
________ is very important because it changes the power and economic advantages between countries.
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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
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