| A | B |
| Edward Jenner | Vaccination for smallpox |
| Eli Whitney | Invented cotton gin |
| Cotton Gin | Increased demand for slavery |
| Henry Bessemer | Process for making steel |
| Louis Pasteur | Discovered bacteria |
| James Watt | Perfected steam engine |
| Urbanization | Movement of people from rural ro urban areas |
| Adam Smth | Author of the Wealth of Nations |
| Karl Marx | Author of Das Kapital and Communist Manifesto |
| standard of living | How well, or comfortably, you live |
| middle class | Group of people who experienced the greatest growth as an effect of the Industrial Revolution |
| laissez-faire | the government is "hands-off" the economy |
| capitalism | the economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution are owned by people, not the government, and are operated for profit |
| socialism | the economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution are owned by everyone, and no one is out to make a profit |
| communism | the economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution are owned by the government |
| cottage system | production or manufacturing of goods by hand at home |
| entreprenurial | when people start and run a business – they assume the risk in order to make a profit |
| unequal distribution of wealth | condition in which money is not shared equally by all people |
| England | Industrial Revolution's place of origin |
| Coal and Iron | Natural resources found in England which made the Industrial Revolution possible |
| Enclosure Movement | The fencing in of common land by nobles. This forced peasant farmers to move to cities to find work in factories. |
| Industrial Revolution | A time in history when production moved from the cottage system to the factory system |
| Increased education | An important effect of the Industrial Revolution |