Chapter 25 Vocabulary

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The greatest increased output of machine-made goods that begin in England in the middle 1700s
Industrial Revolution
A large field allowing landowners to increased in their landholdings
Enclosure
A process which provided to be one of the best developments by scientific farmers
Crop rotation
The process of developing machine production of goods, required such resoures
Industrialization
The resource needed to produce goods and services that the Industrial Revolution required
Factors of production
Wealthy textile merchants set up the machines in large buildings
Factories
A person who organizes, manages, and takes the risk of a business
Entrepeneur
A period of city building and movement of people to cities
Urbanization
A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, businesspeople, and wealthy farmers
Middle class
Certain rights of ownership
Stock
A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for ts debts
Corporation
The economical policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference
Laissez faire
A professor at the University Giasgov, Scotland, defended the idea of a free economy, or free markets, in his 1776 book 'The Wealth of Nations'
Adam Smith
An economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit
Capitalism
The theory that people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions on the basis of their utility, or usefulness
Utilitarianism