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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. Wrote about cruelties of war






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






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






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






6. Identical Machine-made parts.






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






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






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






10. What did jethro tull invent?






11. Theory of relativity






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






13. James watt helped improve what?






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.






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






22. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






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






24. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






25. First Usable - practical light bulb.






26. What did David Richardo write?






27. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy






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






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






30. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






31. What did John Kay invent?






32. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services






33. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame






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






35. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy






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






37. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






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






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






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






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






42. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.






43. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






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






45. James hargreaves invented what?






46. Someone who starts a business.






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






48. Luddites were also known as the...






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






50. Theory of evolution