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Industrial Revolution
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1. What did Eli Whitney invent?
Charles Dickens
Adam Smith
the cotton gin
enclosures
2. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Communism
Wright Bros.
the spinning jenny
luddites
3. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Communism
luddites
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Karl Marx
4. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
Labor Unions
agriculteral revolution
crop rotation
Andrew Carnegie
5. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
agriculteral revolution
crop rotation
Assembly Line
laissez faire
6. What did David Richardo write?
New Economic Theories
principles of economy & taxation
urbanization
Labor Unions
7. Someone who starts a business.
Entrepreneur
Communism
Charles Darwin
the cotton gin
8. What did jethro tull invent?
law of self-interest
the seed drill
Socialism
factories
9. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Entrepreneur
Interchangeable Parts
Assembly Line
the steam engine
10. Wrote about cruelties of war
Leo Tolstoy
clermont
the spinning jenny
the cotton gin
11. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
principles of economy & taxation
clermont
Factory Workers
Wright Bros.
12. Wrote about poor in cities.
david richardo
Laissez-faire
Charles Dickens
Laissez-faire
13. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
New Economic Theories
Inventions
the flying shuttle
the seed drill
14. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Robert Fulton
Adam Smith
david richardo
Labor Union
15. Luddites were also known as the...
Industrial Revolution
New Economic Theories
law of competition
working class
16. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
david richardo
Socialism
urbanization
Labor Unions
17. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
clermont
the seed drill
david richardo
law of competition
18. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
Louis Pasteur
Mass Production
William Wordsworth
john mcadams
19. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
working class
Adam Smith
middle class
Industrial Revolution
20. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
the spinning jenny
industrial revolution
david richardo
Assembly Line
21. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
luddites
Alexander Graham Bell
Communism
crop rotation
22. First Usable - practical light bulb.
Thomas Edison
Samuel Morse
Robert Fulton
working class
23. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
the spinning jenny
the cotton gin
factors of production
Adam Smith
24. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
Mass Production
Karl Marx
clermont
Assembly Line
25. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
the water frame
Communism
urbanization
26. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx
the flying shuttle
the seed drill
27. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Adam Smith
New Economic Theories
corporation
William Wordsworth
28. Identical Machine-made parts.
Inventions
Adam Smith
Interchangeable Parts
Andrew Carnegie
29. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
the water frame
corporation
Ludwig van Beethoven
clermont
30. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Entrepreneur
Factory Workers
Labor Unions
Karl Marx
31. Theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
Adam Smith
Communism
32. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
New Economic Theories
enclosures
Socialism
Robert Fulton
33. James watt helped improve what?
Adam Smith
livestock breeding
luddites
the steam engine
34. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Labor Unions
law of competition
Louis Pasteur
Assembly Line
35. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
livestock breeding
david richardo
Industrial Revolution
Mass Production
36. What did John Kay invent?
thomas malthus
the flying shuttle
law of competition
industrialization
37. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
Louis Pasteur
john mcadams
thomas malthus
urbanization
38. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
law of self-interest
Labor Union
law of competition
Assembly Line
39. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
the cotton gin
Labor Union
Karl Marx
the steam engine
40. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
the seed drill
luddites
Albert Einstein
Samuel Morse
41. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
robert bakewell
the spinning jenny
Karl Marx
42. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Interchangeable Parts
Factory Workers
Karl Marx
Andrew Carnegie
43. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
Assembly Line
robert bakewell
Adam Smith
law of self-interest
44. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
john mcadams
corporation
the water frame
Adam Smith
45. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
urbanization
Assembly Line
Socialism
Mass Production
46. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
the water frame
factories
john mcadams
the steam engine
47. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
enclosures
Entrepreneur
thomas malthus
middle class
48. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
law of supply & demand
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
the water frame
49. 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.
the spinning jenny
the flying shuttle
urbanization
middle class
50. James hargreaves invented what?
the spinning jenny
New Economic Theories
Entrepreneur
luddites
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