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Industrial Revolution Vocab Part 3

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  • Use coal in a sentence
    After collecting the coal, they began loading it onto the train to transport to the nearest city.
  • How did the locomotive impact transportation?
    The locomotive made it possible to move people and goods more rapidly and inexpensively across large areas of land.
  • Name an innovation mentioned in the sentence.
    The Wright brothers' aircraft
  • What is infrastructure?
    the physical assets and systems that enable our daily lives, including transportation, energy, buildings, and sanitation
  • What is a locomotive?
    steam-powered railway engines that are used to pull trains
  • Provide the sentence that uses profit.
    Colonialism made a lot of profit for many European capitalists.
  • What is innovation?
    a new method, approach, or idea
  • What is profit?
    a financial gain
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  • What is a steam engine?
    an engine in which pressurized steam supplies mechanical energy, usually by moving a piston in a closed cylinder
  • Why is the steam engine historically important?
    Many historians consider the steam engine a critical invention in the early ages of the Industrial Revolution.
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  • Give an example of how infrastructure can be affected.
    Extreme weather events like floods, hurricanes, and wildfires can damage or destroy infrastructure.
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