resources from nature that can be useful to people.

a time when machines rather than hand tools were used to make goods.

money to invest in business

this describes cloth

person who organizes, operates, or assumes risks for a new business

manufacturing in which each of the steps of making something is done in different homes.

five-or six story wooden apartment buildings where workers lived.

the increase of the size and number of cities in Great Britain and the US.

crowded neighborhoods where the poor lived

Social class of factory owners and managers, doctors, lawyers, craftworkers, and merchants.