industrial revolution

5. Growth of cities, and movement of people from rural areas to cities.
6. Time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow made farming easier and faster. The production of food rose dramatically.
7. A fabric made by weaving, used in making cloth
8. Social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people and wealthy farmers.
11. Many machines set up in large buildings where people went to work. A method of production that brought many workers and machines together.

1. Children as young as six or seven years had to work. The conditions were horrible and unsafe.
2. Someone who takes on all the financial risks of a business. risk their time and money to start and manage businesses.
3. An economic system based on private ownership of capital.The people control the economy and what is bought and sold.
4. The development of industries for the machine production of goods.
9. Rotating what is planted in each section yearly to increase output, and allows the land to re-generate. (Get the nutrients back in the soil)
10. Introduces the world to Marxism, theories of socialism and the inevitable revolt of the working class. Author of "The Communist Manifesto".
12. Rich landowners buy up farms connecting them together and use productive farming methods to increase agricultural crops over large areas of land, bought from farmers nearby and increased profits for the wealthy landowners.