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Industrial Revolution
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1. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
laissez faire
clermont
working class
the cotton gin
2. Organizations representing workers' interests.
the seed drill
Labor Unions
Labor Union
the flying shuttle
3. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
Entrepreneur
the seed drill
Wright Bros.
Inventions
4. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Louis Pasteur
Andrew Carnegie
Socialism
david richardo
5. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
corporation
thomas malthus
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
6. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
thomas malthus
Andrew Carnegie
corporation
urbanization
7. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Karl Marx
Assembly Line
Mass Production
corporation
8. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
Charles Darwin
Entrepreneur
david richardo
laissez faire
9. Wrote about poor in cities.
the spinning jenny
Andrew Carnegie
Adam Smith
Charles Dickens
10. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
Charles Darwin
factors of production
industrial revolution
david richardo
11. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
david richardo
crop rotation
thomas malthus
12. What did Eli Whitney invent?
the cotton gin
livestock breeding
Louis Pasteur
Industrial Revolution
13. Theory of relativity
principles of economy & taxation
john mcadams
Albert Einstein
Communism
14. James hargreaves invented what?
david richardo
Adam Smith
rocket
the spinning jenny
15. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
the water frame
Mass Production
Thomas Edison
the spinning jenny
16. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
Interchangeable Parts
Adam Smith
Assembly Line
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
17. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
New Economic Theories
Factory Workers
Karl Marx
Samuel Morse
18. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Mass Production
Industrial Revolution
Factory Workers
Laissez-faire
19. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
factors of production
law of competition
the spinning jenny
clermont
20. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Assembly Line
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Adam Smith
William Wordsworth
21. What did jethro tull invent?
working class
the seed drill
Entrepreneur
agriculteral revolution
22. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
factors of production
Samuel Morse
industrialization
middle class
23. First Usable - practical light bulb.
Mass Production
the seed drill
Thomas Edison
Entrepreneur
24. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
corporation
Industrial Revolution
urbanization
Andrew Carnegie
25. Organizations representing workers' interests.
middle class
the flying shuttle
luddites
Labor Unions
26. Theory of evolution
Louis Pasteur
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
Communism
27. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
agriculteral revolution
Charles Dickens
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
28. Poet who wrote about nature
Adam Smith
industrial revolution
William Wordsworth
livestock breeding
29. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
James Watt
Factory Workers
the cotton gin
Socialism
30. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
john mcadams
industrial revolution
livestock breeding
Laissez-faire
31. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
david richardo
livestock breeding
the water frame
Labor Unions
32. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
rocket
Mass Production
factories
Interchangeable Parts
33. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
agriculteral revolution
the cotton gin
david richardo
factories
34. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Leo Tolstoy
factors of production
Louis Pasteur
law of self-interest
35. Invented the telephone
livestock breeding
crop rotation
Alexander Graham Bell
the flying shuttle
36. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
urbanization
law of competition
enclosures
Adam Smith
37. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
rocket
Thomas Edison
the spinning jenny
the cotton gin
38. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
the seed drill
Thomas Edison
New Economic Theories
Assembly Line
39. Someone who starts a business.
Entrepreneur
Mass Production
Socialism
john mcadams
40. James watt helped improve what?
the cotton gin
the steam engine
Robert Fulton
Wright Bros.
41. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
john mcadams
enclosures
david richardo
Laissez-faire
42. What did David Richardo write?
Socialism
urbanization
principles of economy & taxation
corporation
43. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
Alexander Graham Bell
Karl Marx
James Watt
Inventions
44. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
the water frame
William Wordsworth
Thomas Edison
principles of economy & taxation
45. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
Industrial Revolution
Andrew Carnegie
robert bakewell
the steam engine
46. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Alexander Graham Bell
thomas malthus
Ludwig van Beethoven
working class
47. Luddites were also known as the...
Wright Bros.
factories
working class
Labor Unions
48. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Adam Smith
industrialization
david richardo
49. Identical Machine-made parts.
Interchangeable Parts
rocket
the water frame
Mass Production
50. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
New Economic Theories
Andrew Carnegie
law of supply & demand
Communism