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Industrial Revolution
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1. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
Wright Bros.
Thomas Edison
law of supply & demand
factors of production
2. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
agriculteral revolution
Communism
Alexander Graham Bell
working class
3. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
david richardo
Socialism
New Economic Theories
Karl Marx
4. What did John Kay invent?
New Economic Theories
Communism
thomas malthus
the flying shuttle
5. James hargreaves invented what?
Adam Smith
industrial revolution
law of supply & demand
the spinning jenny
6. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
luddites
Communism
crop rotation
Leo Tolstoy
7. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
middle class
Assembly Line
law of self-interest
the cotton gin
8. First Usable - practical light bulb.
Charles Dickens
david richardo
Thomas Edison
Communism
9. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
luddites
clermont
factories
Industrial Revolution
10. Identical Machine-made parts.
the steam engine
industrialization
Interchangeable Parts
Wright Bros.
11. Wrote about poor in cities.
the flying shuttle
david richardo
law of supply & demand
Charles Dickens
12. Theory of evolution
thomas malthus
Leo Tolstoy
Factory Workers
Charles Darwin
13. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Mass Production
Samuel Morse
Louis Pasteur
William Wordsworth
14. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
rocket
Communism
Assembly Line
New Economic Theories
15. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
laissez faire
corporation
industrialization
david richardo
16. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
Charles Darwin
industrial revolution
Robert Fulton
Adam Smith
17. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
enclosures
Socialism
Charles Dickens
industrialization
18. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
middle class
working class
Laissez-faire
Assembly Line
19. Poet who wrote about nature
crop rotation
the flying shuttle
William Wordsworth
industrialization
20. Luddites were also known as the...
working class
Assembly Line
the cotton gin
the seed drill
21. What did David Richardo write?
principles of economy & taxation
the flying shuttle
the cotton gin
Inventions
22. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
Inventions
robert bakewell
Labor Unions
middle class
23. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
working class
john mcadams
law of supply & demand
law of competition
24. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
the water frame
urbanization
the seed drill
thomas malthus
25. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
agriculteral revolution
thomas malthus
Louis Pasteur
the cotton gin
26. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
the seed drill
William Wordsworth
enclosures
robert bakewell
27. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Socialism
Adam Smith
Robert Fulton
laissez faire
28. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
david richardo
New Economic Theories
the water frame
luddites
29. Organizations representing workers' interests.
factories
Labor Union
Adam Smith
the spinning jenny
30. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Wright Bros.
rocket
Andrew Carnegie
Factory Workers
31. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Karl Marx
Wright Bros.
Socialism
thomas malthus
32. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
urbanization
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Andrew Carnegie
33. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
Adam Smith
the flying shuttle
Factory Workers
david richardo
34. Theory of relativity
john mcadams
Albert Einstein
thomas malthus
principles of economy & taxation
35. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Robert Fulton
Communism
factors of production
law of supply & demand
36. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
the seed drill
law of self-interest
david richardo
Assembly Line
37. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Socialism
Andrew Carnegie
Inventions
38. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Adam Smith
factors of production
the water frame
39. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
rocket
Adam Smith
Socialism
middle class
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.
the flying shuttle
Adam Smith
the water frame
Andrew Carnegie
41. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Wright Bros.
Socialism
the steam engine
Karl Marx
42. Someone who starts a business.
Entrepreneur
Inventions
Andrew Carnegie
middle class
43. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
clermont
law of supply & demand
laissez faire
Laissez-faire
44. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
enclosures
thomas malthus
the water frame
Karl Marx
45. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
the flying shuttle
Inventions
Charles Dickens
Wright Bros.
46. A system in which the government controls the economy.
david richardo
Communism
Factory Workers
corporation
47. People can work for their own good
James Watt
david richardo
law of self-interest
Louis Pasteur
48. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
Factory Workers
Karl Marx
factories
Samuel Morse
49. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
thomas malthus
Labor Unions
agriculteral revolution
New Economic Theories
50. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
New Economic Theories
Leo Tolstoy
Albert Einstein
law of supply & demand