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Industrial Revolution
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1. Invented the telephone
the flying shuttle
the seed drill
Alexander Graham Bell
law of competition
2. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
Interchangeable Parts
luddites
enclosures
david richardo
3. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
Ludwig van Beethoven
factors of production
middle class
the spinning jenny
4. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
the cotton gin
Inventions
Samuel Morse
principles of economy & taxation
5. Defended the idea of a free economy.
Andrew Carnegie
Assembly Line
Adam Smith
robert bakewell
6. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Alexander Graham Bell
the water frame
Assembly Line
Karl Marx
7. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
clermont
Andrew Carnegie
principles of economy & taxation
Labor Unions
8. What did jethro tull invent?
Charles Darwin
law of self-interest
rocket
the seed drill
9. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
factories
the water frame
enclosures
the spinning jenny
10. Poet who wrote about nature
industrial revolution
William Wordsworth
Karl Marx
Andrew Carnegie
11. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
the cotton gin
Socialism
Socialism
agriculteral revolution
12. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Adam Smith
Communism
Socialism
david richardo
13. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
Andrew Carnegie
the seed drill
luddites
thomas malthus
14. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
livestock breeding
Louis Pasteur
Mass Production
New Economic Theories
15. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
the flying shuttle
Adam Smith
crop rotation
thomas malthus
16. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
enclosures
Adam Smith
Mass Production
thomas malthus
17. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
agriculteral revolution
Industrial Revolution
david richardo
Andrew Carnegie
18. Someone who starts a business.
Leo Tolstoy
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Entrepreneur
the water frame
19. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
Mass Production
law of supply & demand
Laissez-faire
Adam Smith
20. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
livestock breeding
factors of production
the spinning jenny
Louis Pasteur
21. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Labor Union
Thomas Edison
law of self-interest
New Economic Theories
22. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Assembly Line
Socialism
Mass Production
Labor Union
23. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
working class
Charles Dickens
Labor Union
urbanization
24. 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.
Industrial Revolution
Charles Darwin
the flying shuttle
principles of economy & taxation
25. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Albert Einstein
principles of economy & taxation
Industrial Revolution
26. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
crop rotation
the steam engine
James Watt
27. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
Mass Production
Karl Marx
Andrew Carnegie
the water frame
28. What did John Kay invent?
Albert Einstein
factors of production
the flying shuttle
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
29. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Assembly Line
Entrepreneur
the water frame
Socialism
30. James watt helped improve what?
principles of economy & taxation
Interchangeable Parts
the steam engine
James Watt
31. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
New Economic Theories
clermont
Socialism
Entrepreneur
32. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Assembly Line
Karl Marx
the spinning jenny
Socialism
33. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
corporation
Alexander Graham Bell
Leo Tolstoy
rocket
34. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
robert bakewell
industrialization
rocket
Industrial Revolution
35. People can work for their own good
the spinning jenny
working class
luddites
law of self-interest
36. James hargreaves invented what?
rocket
the spinning jenny
Samuel Morse
Communism
37. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
enclosures
david richardo
Karl Marx
Laissez-faire
38. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
Mass Production
law of self-interest
rocket
david richardo
39. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
Communism
laissez faire
Karl Marx
the spinning jenny
40. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
Albert Einstein
david richardo
William Wordsworth
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
41. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
agriculteral revolution
Laissez-faire
robert bakewell
Adam Smith
42. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
Entrepreneur
industrial revolution
factors of production
Laissez-faire
43. Wrote about cruelties of war
Leo Tolstoy
Laissez-faire
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Samuel Morse
44. First Usable - practical light bulb.
agriculteral revolution
the cotton gin
Thomas Edison
urbanization
45. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
corporation
Karl Marx
law of supply & demand
law of competition
46. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
corporation
Labor Union
the spinning jenny
Laissez-faire
47. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Interchangeable Parts
Assembly Line
working class
Karl Marx
48. What did David Richardo write?
principles of economy & taxation
urbanization
working class
agriculteral revolution
49. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
enclosures
Factory Workers
Communism
Karl Marx
50. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Socialism
the steam engine
Charles Dickens
Communism