The Industrial Revolution - Activity
KEY VOCABULARY
- revolution - a major change/shift
- industrial revolution - a shift from home made goods to mass produced factory goods
- big business - large companies
- laissez faire - government's "hands-off" the economy
- rural - countryside
- urban - city
- urbanization - to make a place city-like
- child labor - to utilize children as a cheaper source of a workforce in factory/mining jobs
- social class - differentiating people based on hierarachy (levels) in a societal structure
The Industrial Revolution