Industrialization Vocab

Philanthropist

a person who gives away a great deal of money to help people.

Manufacturing

The making and produces of goods.

Consumer

A person who buys goods to use.

Monoply

When one company has total ownership of a product or service.

Muckracker

Investigate Journilist or writer who exposes corruption, abuses of powers, and other social ills in government and big business.

Mass production

Producing a large quantity (amount) of a product.

Assembly Line

arranging workers in such a way to manufacture a product quickly and cheaply, giving each worker one task.

Market

a place where goods are bought and sold.

Entreprenuer

a person who starts and manages their own business.

labor union

an organization of employees that fights for better working conditions/pay.

Textiles

a collection of fabric of making clothing.

trust

Another word for monopoly.

Suffrage

The right to vote in political elections.

Nativism

the policy of protecting the intrests of native-born people of a country against those of immigrants.

Tenement

a cheap, overcrowded, poorly, built apartment building or house that housed many-working class families, often new immigrants, in rapidly growing urban areas.