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Industrial Revolution
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1. James hargreaves invented what?
Labor Union
the spinning jenny
david richardo
thomas malthus
2. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
Mass Production
Labor Union
industrialization
the spinning jenny
3. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Inventions
Laissez-faire
the seed drill
Leo Tolstoy
4. What did Eli Whitney invent?
Adam Smith
Samuel Morse
the cotton gin
Leo Tolstoy
5. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
Entrepreneur
the seed drill
Factory Workers
law of competition
6. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
factors of production
middle class
david richardo
Communism
7. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
Adam Smith
Ludwig van Beethoven
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
New Economic Theories
8. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
Wright Bros.
Industrial Revolution
enclosures
middle class
9. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Karl Marx
Socialism
crop rotation
Alexander Graham Bell
10. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Robert Fulton
Samuel Morse
Communism
Factory Workers
11. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
Ludwig van Beethoven
the flying shuttle
thomas malthus
factories
12. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
agriculteral revolution
Louis Pasteur
Karl Marx
Mass Production
13. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
john mcadams
New Economic Theories
clermont
Albert Einstein
14. Poet who wrote about nature
Industrial Revolution
William Wordsworth
Factory Workers
Assembly Line
15. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
Adam Smith
Communism
Inventions
Laissez-faire
16. Identical Machine-made parts.
the spinning jenny
Assembly Line
Interchangeable Parts
New Economic Theories
17. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
Mass Production
thomas malthus
clermont
industrialization
18. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
the seed drill
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Labor Unions
david richardo
19. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
Robert Fulton
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
the flying shuttle
john mcadams
20. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Mass Production
Inventions
Communism
law of competition
21. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
Samuel Morse
rocket
Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx
22. 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.
Socialism
urbanization
Louis Pasteur
the flying shuttle
23. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Thomas Edison
Laissez-faire
Socialism
Assembly Line
24. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
William Wordsworth
Labor Unions
luddites
the flying shuttle
25. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Socialism
thomas malthus
agriculteral revolution
Labor Unions
26. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
david richardo
Entrepreneur
the water frame
rocket
27. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Assembly Line
the flying shuttle
middle class
28. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Labor Union
Laissez-faire
Labor Unions
James Watt
29. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Industrial Revolution
david richardo
Socialism
the seed drill
30. Luddites were also known as the...
factors of production
working class
Louis Pasteur
thomas malthus
31. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
principles of economy & taxation
William Wordsworth
Factory Workers
agriculteral revolution
32. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
corporation
laissez faire
Louis Pasteur
Leo Tolstoy
33. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Laissez-faire
Karl Marx
Mass Production
Louis Pasteur
34. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
the cotton gin
New Economic Theories
the steam engine
david richardo
35. Defended the idea of a free economy.
James Watt
the spinning jenny
Adam Smith
the water frame
36. People can work for their own good
Communism
the flying shuttle
Entrepreneur
law of self-interest
37. What did jethro tull invent?
the seed drill
Karl Marx
the cotton gin
Labor Unions
38. James watt helped improve what?
Charles Dickens
Industrial Revolution
the flying shuttle
the steam engine
39. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
livestock breeding
James Watt
Thomas Edison
Inventions
40. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Labor Union
Albert Einstein
Socialism
corporation
41. Invented the telephone
working class
William Wordsworth
Alexander Graham Bell
Ludwig van Beethoven
42. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
the spinning jenny
enclosures
john mcadams
Andrew Carnegie
43. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
Mass Production
agriculteral revolution
Andrew Carnegie
Adam Smith
44. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Assembly Line
Andrew Carnegie
working class
Communism
45. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
urbanization
factors of production
Laissez-faire
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
46. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
the seed drill
law of competition
urbanization
the water frame
47. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Samuel Morse
principles of economy & taxation
Communism
Albert Einstein
48. Wrote about poor in cities.
New Economic Theories
Karl Marx
Wright Bros.
Charles Dickens
49. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
Robert Fulton
robert bakewell
factories
Ludwig van Beethoven
50. What did David Richardo write?
Karl Marx
principles of economy & taxation
Adam Smith
Inventions