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Industrial Revolution
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1. Defended the idea of a free economy.
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
Wright Bros.
john mcadams
2. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
Labor Unions
thomas malthus
Alexander Graham Bell
the steam engine
3. What did David Richardo write?
James Watt
Andrew Carnegie
rocket
principles of economy & taxation
4. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.
industrialization
Samuel Morse
Factory Workers
industrial revolution
5. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Factory Workers
New Economic Theories
industrialization
6. Luddites were also known as the...
Laissez-faire
Labor Unions
working class
agriculteral revolution
7. Theory of evolution
Entrepreneur
principles of economy & taxation
Charles Darwin
the seed drill
8. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
david richardo
luddites
the cotton gin
Karl Marx
9. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
Industrial Revolution
urbanization
law of supply & demand
Ludwig van Beethoven
10. Wrote about poor in cities.
the flying shuttle
thomas malthus
Charles Dickens
livestock breeding
11. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
clermont
Louis Pasteur
Adam Smith
thomas malthus
12. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
clermont
Thomas Edison
Leo Tolstoy
Mass Production
13. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
industrial revolution
Inventions
Alexander Graham Bell
the spinning jenny
14. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Factory Workers
Communism
the seed drill
James Watt
15. A system in which the government controls the economy.
urbanization
laissez faire
Communism
Andrew Carnegie
16. Invented the telephone
Laissez-faire
Samuel Morse
Interchangeable Parts
Alexander Graham Bell
17. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
Alexander Graham Bell
the cotton gin
laissez faire
luddites
18. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
law of competition
working class
industrialization
the seed drill
19. James hargreaves invented what?
principles of economy & taxation
the spinning jenny
Andrew Carnegie
the flying shuttle
20. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
the seed drill
Charles Darwin
enclosures
Samuel Morse
21. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
david richardo
the spinning jenny
industrialization
law of competition
22. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
the water frame
Mass Production
Albert Einstein
Assembly Line
23. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Inventions
enclosures
Assembly Line
john mcadams
24. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
thomas malthus
law of supply & demand
Leo Tolstoy
factories
25. What did John Kay invent?
the flying shuttle
crop rotation
industrial revolution
Andrew Carnegie
26. What did Eli Whitney invent?
the flying shuttle
the cotton gin
New Economic Theories
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
27. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
Inventions
Adam Smith
Laissez-faire
the spinning jenny
28. Theory of relativity
industrial revolution
Labor Union
Albert Einstein
Louis Pasteur
29. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
middle class
robert bakewell
david richardo
the water frame
30. What did jethro tull invent?
Labor Union
Interchangeable Parts
the seed drill
enclosures
31. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
crop rotation
Andrew Carnegie
clermont
david richardo
32. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
agriculteral revolution
factors of production
clermont
the flying shuttle
33. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
Charles Darwin
the water frame
law of supply & demand
Thomas Edison
34. Wrote about cruelties of war
Leo Tolstoy
Adam Smith
middle class
urbanization
35. Someone who starts a business.
rocket
Communism
Entrepreneur
Alexander Graham Bell
36. First Usable - practical light bulb.
James Watt
factors of production
Thomas Edison
robert bakewell
37. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
david richardo
robert bakewell
Ludwig van Beethoven
Entrepreneur
38. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Assembly Line
crop rotation
Adam Smith
39. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
the spinning jenny
the seed drill
Ludwig van Beethoven
rocket
40. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
Labor Union
Inventions
david richardo
factories
41. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Socialism
Interchangeable Parts
Factory Workers
crop rotation
42. Poet who wrote about nature
Adam Smith
Louis Pasteur
William Wordsworth
Laissez-faire
43. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
enclosures
Karl Marx
middle class
Mass Production
44. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Adam Smith
Robert Fulton
Assembly Line
Mass Production
45. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
Alexander Graham Bell
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
the cotton gin
law of self-interest
46. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Charles Dickens
Robert Fulton
the water frame
Samuel Morse
47. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Entrepreneur
Adam Smith
the water frame
Labor Union
48. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
law of self-interest
Karl Marx
industrial revolution
49. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Laissez-faire
Labor Unions
the steam engine
Socialism
50. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
agriculteral revolution
Laissez-faire
the seed drill
the water frame