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Industrial Revolution
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1. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
factors of production
Robert Fulton
working class
Assembly Line
2. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Adam Smith
Laissez-faire
Louis Pasteur
Laissez-faire
3. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
clermont
the water frame
Industrial Revolution
the spinning jenny
4. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
thomas malthus
law of supply & demand
corporation
robert bakewell
5. Organizations representing workers' interests.
urbanization
Labor Union
Robert Fulton
robert bakewell
6. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
industrialization
Labor Union
thomas malthus
robert bakewell
7. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
law of competition
the flying shuttle
thomas malthus
8. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
crop rotation
Laissez-faire
corporation
middle class
9. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
Robert Fulton
the water frame
Thomas Edison
corporation
10. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
James Watt
corporation
Laissez-faire
luddites
11. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
corporation
Adam Smith
john mcadams
the cotton gin
12. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
Assembly Line
david richardo
Mass Production
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
13. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
Karl Marx
working class
Communism
law of competition
14. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Assembly Line
corporation
david richardo
the spinning jenny
15. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
Interchangeable Parts
the flying shuttle
crop rotation
enclosures
16. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
Ludwig van Beethoven
rocket
factories
industrialization
17. Theory of evolution
corporation
Charles Darwin
Robert Fulton
Mass Production
18. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
Albert Einstein
urbanization
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
19. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
agriculteral revolution
working class
the cotton gin
Ludwig van Beethoven
20. People can work for their own good
Assembly Line
the flying shuttle
law of self-interest
Communism
21. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Inventions
Communism
thomas malthus
clermont
22. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Mass Production
Andrew Carnegie
Laissez-faire
Louis Pasteur
23. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
New Economic Theories
James Watt
factors of production
john mcadams
24. James hargreaves invented what?
the spinning jenny
the seed drill
Socialism
Andrew Carnegie
25. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Robert Fulton
William Wordsworth
the spinning jenny
Samuel Morse
26. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Factory Workers
Karl Marx
Labor Union
Alexander Graham Bell
27. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
Laissez-faire
the water frame
the seed drill
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
28. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
the seed drill
Mass Production
Robert Fulton
Andrew Carnegie
29. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
corporation
industrial revolution
law of competition
Adam Smith
30. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Labor Unions
Communism
Adam Smith
Entrepreneur
31. Theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
Robert Fulton
Communism
the flying shuttle
32. Someone who starts a business.
rocket
factors of production
Entrepreneur
Communism
33. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
the cotton gin
david richardo
industrialization
Communism
34. First Usable - practical light bulb.
Factory Workers
principles of economy & taxation
Thomas Edison
Assembly Line
35. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
enclosures
Adam Smith
Alexander Graham Bell
Charles Dickens
36. 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 flying shuttle
Communism
law of competition
thomas malthus
37. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
the flying shuttle
the water frame
crop rotation
Adam Smith
38. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Adam Smith
Communism
thomas malthus
Laissez-faire
39. Wrote about cruelties of war
Alexander Graham Bell
crop rotation
Leo Tolstoy
Adam Smith
40. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
the cotton gin
Adam Smith
Socialism
Industrial Revolution
41. Defended the idea of a free economy.
Entrepreneur
Andrew Carnegie
the cotton gin
Adam Smith
42. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
the spinning jenny
the seed drill
Inventions
the cotton gin
43. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
the seed drill
Socialism
luddites
Wright Bros.
44. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
Karl Marx
Charles Dickens
rocket
Thomas Edison
45. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
Entrepreneur
urbanization
Andrew Carnegie
Alexander Graham Bell
46. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
john mcadams
Andrew Carnegie
Socialism
the cotton gin
47. Identical Machine-made parts.
Interchangeable Parts
john mcadams
Communism
Socialism
48. What did David Richardo write?
Charles Dickens
robert bakewell
the cotton gin
principles of economy & taxation
49. Poet who wrote about nature
Industrial Revolution
industrialization
William Wordsworth
the flying shuttle
50. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
Karl Marx
Wright Bros.
the seed drill
Louis Pasteur