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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.






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






3. Invented the telephone






4. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






5. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame






6. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






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






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






9. Wrote about cruelties of war






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






11. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






13. Wrote about poor in cities.






14. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved






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






16. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?






17. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






18. Someone who starts a business.






19. James hargreaves invented what?






20. What did Eli Whitney invent?






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






22. What did John Kay invent?






23. James watt helped improve what?






24. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






25. What did jethro tull invent?






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






27. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned






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






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






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






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






32. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops






33. 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.






34. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






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






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






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






38. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class






39. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?






40. First Usable - practical light bulb.






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






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






43. Defended the idea of a free economy.






44. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






45. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?






46. Theory of relativity






47. Poet who wrote about nature






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






49. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country






50. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs