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| Effort beginning in Great Britian in the late 1700s, to increase production by using machines powered by sources other than humans or animals |
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| A system of manufacturing in which all parts are made to an exact standard for easy mass-assembly |
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| Machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fiber |
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| A license that gives an inventor the exclusive right to make, use or sell an invention for a set period of time |
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| Shift from a home-based, often agricultural, economy to one based on money and the buying and selling of goods |
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| Making of goods by machinery |
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| Economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods |
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| In production, a system in which each worker performs a single part of an entire process |
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| Money that a business spends in hopes of future gains |
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| Piece of paper that a bank issues to its customers and that can be exchanged for gold or silver coin |
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| A low-cost apartment building that often has poor standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort and is designed to house as many families as possible |
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| A work stoppage intended to force an employer to certain demands, as in the demand for higher wages |
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