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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. What did David Richardo write?






2. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product






3. First Usable - practical light bulb.






4. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.






5. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?






6. The development of industries for the machine production of goods






7. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time






8. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels






9. Luddites were also known as the...






10. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods






11. Helped make textile production more efficient than doing the job by hand. would carry the threads of yarn back & forth when the weaver pulled a handle on the loom.






12. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently






13. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.






14. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine






15. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on






16. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.






17. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.






18. Poet who wrote about nature






19. The idea that government should not interfere in business.






20. Wrote about cruelties of war






21. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.






22. Theory of relativity






23. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






24. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






25. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






26. Organizations representing workers' interests.






27. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.






28. Wrote about poor in cities.






29. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.






30. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






31. A system in which the government controls the economy.






32. What did jethro tull invent?






33. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.






34. Invented the telephone






35. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.






36. James watt helped improve what?






37. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






38. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land






39. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them






40. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.






41. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame






42. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases






43. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?






44. Defended the idea of a free economy.






45. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.






46. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited






47. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap






48. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.






49. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






50. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.