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Industrial Revolution
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1. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Charles Dickens
Louis Pasteur
New Economic Theories
thomas malthus
2. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
working class
Mass Production
Robert Fulton
law of competition
3. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
the cotton gin
john mcadams
Leo Tolstoy
Karl Marx
4. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
Louis Pasteur
clermont
middle class
law of supply & demand
5. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
laissez faire
corporation
david richardo
the spinning jenny
6. Organizations representing workers' interests.
the spinning jenny
Labor Union
the seed drill
principles of economy & taxation
7. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Ludwig van Beethoven
the steam engine
luddites
8. What did jethro tull invent?
the cotton gin
the seed drill
James Watt
luddites
9. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
urbanization
the water frame
Assembly Line
david richardo
10. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
john mcadams
Louis Pasteur
Adam Smith
corporation
11. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Labor Unions
the flying shuttle
Socialism
principles of economy & taxation
12. Wrote about poor in cities.
Charles Dickens
Communism
Karl Marx
Socialism
13. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
enclosures
Andrew Carnegie
factories
Adam Smith
14. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
principles of economy & taxation
the water frame
factories
the steam engine
15. James watt helped improve what?
urbanization
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
david richardo
the steam engine
16. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
Mass Production
Labor Union
the spinning jenny
Labor Unions
17. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Communism
clermont
livestock breeding
Thomas Edison
18. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.
Adam Smith
Samuel Morse
Industrial Revolution
the spinning jenny
19. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
thomas malthus
working class
crop rotation
middle class
20. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
Industrial Revolution
Interchangeable Parts
the cotton gin
New Economic Theories
21. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
industrialization
the spinning jenny
luddites
the flying shuttle
22. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
crop rotation
urbanization
Adam Smith
factors of production
23. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
Assembly Line
Labor Unions
livestock breeding
Entrepreneur
24. People can work for their own good
law of self-interest
enclosures
Communism
urbanization
25. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
Assembly Line
Adam Smith
enclosures
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
26. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
Albert Einstein
factories
Laissez-faire
Socialism
27. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
working class
Entrepreneur
Mass Production
clermont
28. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
the seed drill
Assembly Line
Andrew Carnegie
29. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
Socialism
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Assembly Line
thomas malthus
30. What did David Richardo write?
Louis Pasteur
the flying shuttle
the cotton gin
principles of economy & taxation
31. Wrote about cruelties of war
Inventions
working class
the seed drill
Leo Tolstoy
32. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
working class
the steam engine
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
33. Poet who wrote about nature
enclosures
Laissez-faire
William Wordsworth
Robert Fulton
34. What did John Kay invent?
urbanization
the seed drill
the water frame
the flying shuttle
35. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Labor Union
Robert Fulton
Karl Marx
36. Invented the telephone
James Watt
Alexander Graham Bell
Adam Smith
the flying shuttle
37. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
david richardo
Socialism
Assembly Line
Labor Unions
38. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
working class
the spinning jenny
the water frame
Laissez-faire
39. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
enclosures
Laissez-faire
Inventions
crop rotation
40. 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.
working class
Wright Bros.
the flying shuttle
principles of economy & taxation
41. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
Communism
david richardo
working class
Socialism
42. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
the seed drill
thomas malthus
Socialism
Robert Fulton
43. James hargreaves invented what?
industrial revolution
the spinning jenny
Wright Bros.
Industrial Revolution
44. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
principles of economy & taxation
robert bakewell
Entrepreneur
urbanization
45. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
david richardo
New Economic Theories
Wright Bros.
the water frame
46. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
law of competition
Andrew Carnegie
New Economic Theories
Socialism
47. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
the spinning jenny
robert bakewell
luddites
the spinning jenny
48. Defended the idea of a free economy.
Samuel Morse
Louis Pasteur
Mass Production
Adam Smith
49. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
crop rotation
industrial revolution
urbanization
Adam Smith
50. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
industrialization
Industrial Revolution
Mass Production
thomas malthus