Industrializtion - the development of industries and factories for the machine production of goods, Urbanization - the rapid growth of cities; people moving out of rural (farmland) areas into urban (cities) areas., Factories - large buildings in which machinery is used to manufacture (make) goods, Manufacturing - the process of making a raw material into a finished product; especially in large quantities, or in a factory, Assembly line - a production method used in factories that breaks down a job into a series of smaller tasks, Entrepreneur - a person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business, Thomas Edison - American inventor of the lightbulb, phonograph and other innvoations, Henry Ford - US developer and manufacturer of cars and who also pioneered the assembly line, Urban - relating to a city, Rural - relating to the countryside, Bessemer process - first inexpensive industrial process of the mass production of steel , labor - to work; effort people put in a task to get paid, working conditions - the environment of a work place; safety, hours, wages/income - money paid to an employee for work done, tenements - urban/city apartment housing poor factory workers; overcrowded, poorly built, labor unions - organization formed by workers to protect their rights (better working conditions), reform - to change for better, muckrakers - journalists/reporters who exposed bad thing happening in society (attempt to bring change), Progressives - reformers who work to solve problems caused by industrialization/urbanization in late 1800's and early 1900's,

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