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Industrial Revolution
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1. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Karl Marx
Laissez-faire
William Wordsworth
middle class
2. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Leo Tolstoy
Albert Einstein
Robert Fulton
Louis Pasteur
3. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
Laissez-faire
the water frame
industrialization
thomas malthus
4. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
William Wordsworth
Leo Tolstoy
Karl Marx
law of supply & demand
5. Defended the idea of a free economy.
James Watt
factories
Samuel Morse
Adam Smith
6. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
corporation
Wright Bros.
Karl Marx
Ludwig van Beethoven
7. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
Albert Einstein
luddites
Adam Smith
law of self-interest
8. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
clermont
Wright Bros.
Charles Dickens
john mcadams
9. Poet who wrote about nature
john mcadams
david richardo
enclosures
William Wordsworth
10. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
Entrepreneur
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
livestock breeding
crop rotation
11. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Laissez-faire
Wright Bros.
industrialization
Alexander Graham Bell
12. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
david richardo
Adam Smith
Factory Workers
crop rotation
13. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
david richardo
Assembly Line
Ludwig van Beethoven
Communism
14. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
enclosures
working class
Industrial Revolution
crop rotation
15. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
thomas malthus
New Economic Theories
enclosures
urbanization
16. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
the water frame
the seed drill
Adam Smith
industrialization
17. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
thomas malthus
Charles Dickens
James Watt
Karl Marx
18. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
laissez faire
corporation
industrial revolution
Andrew Carnegie
19. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
robert bakewell
Robert Fulton
rocket
david richardo
20. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
Communism
law of competition
Socialism
Interchangeable Parts
21. A system in which the government controls the economy.
robert bakewell
Socialism
Communism
the flying shuttle
22. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Inventions
corporation
the spinning jenny
Industrial Revolution
23. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
the steam engine
crop rotation
laissez faire
Karl Marx
24. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
agriculteral revolution
Interchangeable Parts
david richardo
crop rotation
25. What did Eli Whitney invent?
Industrial Revolution
Adam Smith
the cotton gin
Andrew Carnegie
26. Luddites were also known as the...
the flying shuttle
working class
Laissez-faire
Mass Production
27. People can work for their own good
James Watt
Mass Production
law of self-interest
middle class
28. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Albert Einstein
Louis Pasteur
Mass Production
crop rotation
29. What did jethro tull invent?
Andrew Carnegie
Industrial Revolution
the spinning jenny
the seed drill
30. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
the cotton gin
Laissez-faire
middle class
Thomas Edison
31. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
industrialization
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
corporation
Socialism
32. Theory of relativity
the cotton gin
Albert Einstein
the water frame
the seed drill
33. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
New Economic Theories
luddites
Factory Workers
the water frame
34. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
Albert Einstein
agriculteral revolution
factories
factors of production
35. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
Interchangeable Parts
Robert Fulton
Karl Marx
john mcadams
36. Theory of evolution
Andrew Carnegie
Mass Production
Charles Darwin
law of competition
37. What did John Kay invent?
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
the flying shuttle
Interchangeable Parts
38. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
the seed drill
Leo Tolstoy
law of self-interest
Inventions
39. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
Laissez-faire
david richardo
working class
law of supply & demand
40. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
Assembly Line
thomas malthus
Entrepreneur
laissez faire
41. Wrote about cruelties of war
crop rotation
the flying shuttle
Adam Smith
Leo Tolstoy
42. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
the water frame
law of competition
Wright Bros.
43. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
the spinning jenny
Socialism
Wright Bros.
Labor Unions
44. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
david richardo
the flying shuttle
Assembly Line
the cotton gin
45. What did David Richardo write?
industrial revolution
principles of economy & taxation
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
46. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
Laissez-faire
industrial revolution
david richardo
david richardo
47. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Assembly Line
Labor Unions
Laissez-faire
the steam engine
48. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
Andrew Carnegie
working class
Laissez-faire
clermont
49. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.
Samuel Morse
Charles Darwin
clermont
factories
50. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
laissez faire
agriculteral revolution
Mass Production
Samuel Morse