INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: KEY VOCABULARY

Directions:
1. Each person in your table group has been assigned 1-2 vocabulary words. Check which word you were assigned by looking in your table
group chat.
2. Use the textbook PDF, https://www.merriam-webster.com/, and your own experience to define your terms in your own words. For each term,
come up with an example and copy/paste an image to help you remember the word.
3. Copy/paste your completed word information into your table group chat.
4. Copy/paste your peers’ answers into your table after you have shared.

Word Definition Example Image

Industrialization helped many
The process of industrial people get better technology
improvement in a wide scale and food

Industrialization

A building that produces and

packages items you buy from
stores.
Factory
Building for manufacturing

Mass Production The Industrial Revolution An example of mass production

changed the way that goods is Henry Ford's Model-T
are produced and gave birth to automobile.
mass production, by the
division of labor and the
increasing prevalence of
machines in factories. People
and society were changed as
an impact of mass production
and the evolvement of
 factories.
The action of a person of some An example for Labor is
sort of effort (physical or studying hard for a test.
mental) especially when
difficult.
Labor

Microsoft is a controversial
Monopoly is when a company, monopoly, while it owns quite a
organization, or business that few businesses it doesn’t try to
has exclusive ownership of completely overpower them.
other businesses which is
legally acquired to maintain
Monopoly power in industry.
(not the board
game)

Word Definition Example Image

Shareholders are basically
people who own a share in a
business which leads it to be a
corporation.
Shareholder
Say for example someone plans
to invest money in a company
(Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) they
would be a shareholder in that
company.

A business owned by investors
who buy part of it through
shares of stock, basically it’s a
business that is owned by
Corporation
investors that can buy parts of
the corporation.
A business leader who became
wealthy through dishonest
methods, basically someone
that became rich by using
Robber Baron dishonesty and mean tactics to
get there in their career.
To make something move
Mechanization mechanically
Microsoft is a corporation
because people can buy small
amounts of it and in the long
run they might earn lots of
money back
John D. Rockefeller was a
robber baron because he
monopolized the oil industry,
barely donated to the
community and led the workers
to harsh conditions.
I made the robot move
mechanically
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