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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.






2. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class






3. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine






4. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods






5. What did Eli Whitney invent?






6. Identical Machine-made parts.






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






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






9. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?






10. James watt helped improve what?






11. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






12. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.






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






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






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






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






17. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.






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






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






20. What did David Richardo write?






21. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






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






23. Invented the telephone






24. Poet who wrote about nature






25. Wrote about cruelties of war






26. Organizations representing workers' interests.






27. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






28. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited






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






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






31. What did jethro tull invent?






32. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on






33. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.






34. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.






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






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






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






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






39. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






40. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






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






42. Theory of evolution






43. 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.






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






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






46. James hargreaves invented what?






47. First Usable - practical light bulb.






48. Someone who starts a business.






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






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