industrialization & immigration vocabulary. a sudden change of direction
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Industrialization
&
Immigration
Vocabulary
• a sudden change of direction
revolution
• having a central government, with a number of separate states, each state retains control of its own interests.
federation
• coming from another country or nation; not native
foreign
• Person or persons who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.
immigrants
• When one nation takes control of colonies and other nations.
imperialism
• any general business activity; business activities to make money
industry
• anything made up to help in everyday living
invention
• A person who creates an object or service to make life easier
inventor
• an organization of wage earners or salaried employees to get aid and protection
• The manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
mass production
• the moving of people or animals from one location to another
migration
• Groups of people that ban together to protect or help one another
allies
• to attach or add, especially to something larger or more important
annex
• quality in a person or society that happens from a concern for what is thought as excellent in the arts, writing, manners, learning
culture
of or about the home, the household, household affairs, or the family
domestic
• a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes
alliance
• Having a strong military spirit or policy
militarism
• Being forced to join the armed services
military draft
• sole control of a commodity or service in a particular market
monopoly
• give an alien or foreigner the rights and privileges of a citizen
naturalization
• devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty
patriotism
• an bad opinion or feeling felt beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason
prejudice
• Wanting progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are
progressive
• Improvement from what is wrong
• Someone who studies the world around them
scientist
• To agree with others not to work so that the employee will listen to their grievances.
strike
• Ways to improve how things are done
technology
• Carrying things across distances
transportation
• any group of persons joined together in one body.
corporation
• Person who owns a part or share of a company
shareholder
• A place of employment where people are abused and exploited by their employees
sweatshop
• thickly populated, run-down, dirty part of a city, inhabited by poor people
slum
• run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city
tenement
• To cause others to move or go into action, sometimes in the military
mobilized
• Industry dealing with fabrics
textile industry
• an early spinning machine having more than one spindle, enabling a person to spin a number of yarns at the same time
Spinning Jenny
Flying Shuttle
• Taking seeds out of cotton
Cotton Gin
• Motor that works by boiling water to create steam
Steam Engine
• Roads made with tar
macadam roads
• A means of transportation that runs on rails
railroads
• an artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation
canals
• Disease caused by mining in the coal mines
black lung
• to place molten iron to the process of melting down
Puddling
Bessemer process
natural resources
exploitative
pesticides
domestic work
agrarian
industrialization
automation
detrimental
adequate
exploited
informal sector
formal sector
overseers
apprentice
intercede
indentured
migrant workers