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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on






2. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






3. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






4. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.






5. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame






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






7. What did jethro tull invent?






8. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land






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






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






11. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






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






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






14. Theory of relativity






15. 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.






16. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts






17. Theory of evolution






18. James watt helped improve what?






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






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






21. Defended the idea of a free economy.






22. What did Eli Whitney invent?






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






24. Identical Machine-made parts.






25. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






26. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.






27. The development of industries for the machine production of goods






28. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






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






30. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






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






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






33. People can work for their own good






34. What did John Kay invent?






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






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






37. Organizations representing workers' interests.






38. Organizations representing workers' interests.






39. Someone who starts a business.






40. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.






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






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






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






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






45. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.






46. First Usable - practical light bulb.






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






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






49. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.






50. Poet who wrote about nature