1. The Industrial Revolution

2. Please copy the following definitions in your Social Studies notebook:
Textile: Industry dealing with woven cloth.
Capital: Money invested in businesses.
Partnership: An agreement where two or more people own a business and pooled their own money.
Corporation: This raises money by selling shares of the company to investors.

3. Please copy the following definitions in your Social Studies notebook:
5) Industrial Revolution: A time in history characterized by the rise of machine power rather than animal or human power.
“Necessity is the mother of invention”

4. Please copy the following definitions in your Social Studies notebook:
6) Mill Town: A town whose entire social life revolved around the factory or mill.
7) Specialized Worker:A worker in a factory who had one specific job that they would repeat throughout the workday.
8) Interchangeable Parts: A type of part that would fit into a machine and could be easily removed or replaced.

5. Please copy the following definitions in your Social Studies notebook:
9) Union: A group of workers who organize together to bargain with their employer for improved working conditions.
10) Strike: An protest by workers who refuse to return to the factories until their demands are made.
11) Child Labor Laws: Laws that restricted the age limit and working hours of children in factories.
12) Urbanization: The movement of people from rural areas to cities.

6. Please copy the following definitions in your Social Studies notebook:
13) Imperialism: A type of relationship between countries in which one nation directly or indirectly controls the government or the economy of another nation.
14) Colony: A direct rule of another nation by the “Mother Nation.”
15) Protectorate: Where the local people have their own government, but the imperial government controls the military and can tell local rulers what to do.

7. Please copy the following definitions in your Social Studies notebook:
20) Sphere of Influence: A region where only one imperial power has the right to invest or trade.
21) Panama Canal: A major construction project that made it possible to ship goods from the Atlantic to the Pacific much easier than it had been in the past.

8. Please copy the following definitions in your Social Studies notebook:
16) Nationalism: The belief that the needs of one particular country are more important than the needs of the entire world.
17) The Opium War: A war between China and Great Britain over the trade of an addictive drug. This led to greater British trading rights in Chinese ports.
Extraterritoriality: When citizens of one country are subject only to their country’s laws even if they live in another land.
The Boxer Rebellion: An uprising in China where foreigners were attacked, especially Chinese Christians. The U.S. sent troops to end the fighting.