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Industrial Revolution
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1. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
the flying shuttle
the water frame
Factory Workers
Socialism
2. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
clermont
Socialism
Leo Tolstoy
Adam Smith
3. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
robert bakewell
Assembly Line
industrial revolution
factors of production
4. James watt helped improve what?
Assembly Line
the steam engine
thomas malthus
Andrew Carnegie
5. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
Laissez-faire
factors of production
Robert Fulton
rocket
6. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
clermont
Labor Unions
law of supply & demand
Laissez-faire
7. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
thomas malthus
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Morse
the cotton gin
8. Theory of relativity
laissez faire
Albert Einstein
Assembly Line
Charles Darwin
9. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Adam Smith
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Dickens
Louis Pasteur
10. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Adam Smith
Mass Production
Labor Unions
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
11. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
agriculteral revolution
Robert Fulton
Mass Production
Louis Pasteur
12. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mass Production
middle class
Andrew Carnegie
13. What did Eli Whitney invent?
the cotton gin
working class
Louis Pasteur
Andrew Carnegie
14. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
luddites
James Watt
agriculteral revolution
Inventions
15. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
Adam Smith
the spinning jenny
david richardo
factories
16. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
the spinning jenny
Communism
Samuel Morse
the water frame
17. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
laissez faire
crop rotation
the flying shuttle
the cotton gin
18. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
industrialization
Andrew Carnegie
industrial revolution
factories
19. Someone who starts a business.
Entrepreneur
factors of production
clermont
principles of economy & taxation
20. Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
principles of economy & taxation
john mcadams
industrialization
21. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Laissez-faire
clermont
corporation
Laissez-faire
22. Wrote about cruelties of war
Louis Pasteur
New Economic Theories
david richardo
Leo Tolstoy
23. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
Interchangeable Parts
the spinning jenny
middle class
law of self-interest
24. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
Andrew Carnegie
the cotton gin
Inventions
the steam engine
25. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
Adam Smith
Socialism
law of competition
Ludwig van Beethoven
26. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
rocket
law of self-interest
the spinning jenny
Leo Tolstoy
27. What did jethro tull invent?
the seed drill
Factory Workers
middle class
principles of economy & taxation
28. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
urbanization
crop rotation
Albert Einstein
Mass Production
29. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
Socialism
Karl Marx
William Wordsworth
Charles Darwin
30. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
law of self-interest
working class
Factory Workers
the flying shuttle
31. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
principles of economy & taxation
middle class
Andrew Carnegie
Communism
32. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Socialism
principles of economy & taxation
Factory Workers
the steam engine
33. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
Assembly Line
Andrew Carnegie
the seed drill
Interchangeable Parts
34. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
enclosures
law of self-interest
the spinning jenny
Mass Production
35. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Socialism
Adam Smith
Assembly Line
the flying shuttle
36. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Mass Production
the steam engine
Communism
the spinning jenny
37. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Mass Production
Assembly Line
Labor Union
Charles Dickens
38. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Labor Unions
enclosures
urbanization
Andrew Carnegie
39. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Albert Einstein
law of competition
Laissez-faire
the flying shuttle
40. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
thomas malthus
david richardo
New Economic Theories
principles of economy & taxation
41. What did David Richardo write?
New Economic Theories
principles of economy & taxation
William Wordsworth
the steam engine
42. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
enclosures
Karl Marx
Assembly Line
middle class
43. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
laissez faire
Communism
New Economic Theories
thomas malthus
44. James hargreaves invented what?
the steam engine
the cotton gin
the spinning jenny
Andrew Carnegie
45. Defended the idea of a free economy.
Alexander Graham Bell
the steam engine
Adam Smith
Mass Production
46. Poet who wrote about nature
William Wordsworth
john mcadams
industrialization
Labor Union
47. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Assembly Line
law of competition
factors of production
the flying shuttle
48. Identical Machine-made parts.
James Watt
Interchangeable Parts
thomas malthus
Andrew Carnegie
49. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Interchangeable Parts
law of competition
industrial revolution
Laissez-faire
50. What did John Kay invent?
Labor Union
the flying shuttle
Mass Production
robert bakewell