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Industrial Revolution
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1. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
clermont
Socialism
corporation
New Economic Theories
2. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
thomas malthus
rocket
Charles Dickens
Industrial Revolution
3. A system in which the government controls the economy.
thomas malthus
working class
Communism
Interchangeable Parts
4. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
Karl Marx
john mcadams
Adam Smith
david richardo
5. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
industrial revolution
Entrepreneur
Laissez-faire
James Watt
6. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Assembly Line
James Watt
Laissez-faire
Ludwig van Beethoven
7. What did Eli Whitney invent?
the cotton gin
the spinning jenny
Leo Tolstoy
law of competition
8. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
Interchangeable Parts
industrialization
middle class
Industrial Revolution
9. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Assembly Line
law of supply & demand
industrialization
enclosures
10. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Karl Marx
industrialization
corporation
the spinning jenny
11. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Adam Smith
Alexander Graham Bell
Mass Production
Adam Smith
12. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
Thomas Edison
crop rotation
law of supply & demand
Albert Einstein
13. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
law of self-interest
industrialization
Assembly Line
Alexander Graham Bell
14. What did John Kay invent?
the flying shuttle
the cotton gin
Mass Production
Adam Smith
15. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Socialism
Labor Union
enclosures
the seed drill
16. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Assembly Line
Laissez-faire
Karl Marx
Communism
17. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
factories
the flying shuttle
Interchangeable Parts
clermont
18. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Industrial Revolution
rocket
Mass Production
19. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
the water frame
Alexander Graham Bell
laissez faire
Communism
20. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Socialism
Albert Einstein
Robert Fulton
clermont
21. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
urbanization
Inventions
the flying shuttle
principles of economy & taxation
22. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Socialism
Ludwig van Beethoven
Andrew Carnegie
Labor Union
23. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Morse
industrialization
William Wordsworth
24. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Karl Marx
Factory Workers
rocket
Robert Fulton
25. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
laissez faire
robert bakewell
Leo Tolstoy
david richardo
26. Organizations representing workers' interests.
enclosures
Adam Smith
the water frame
Labor Unions
27. Defended the idea of a free economy.
Adam Smith
Socialism
Robert Fulton
robert bakewell
28. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
William Wordsworth
middle class
Industrial Revolution
robert bakewell
29. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
agriculteral revolution
david richardo
enclosures
industrial revolution
30. People can work for their own good
the cotton gin
law of self-interest
Samuel Morse
Labor Union
31. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
Mass Production
law of supply & demand
agriculteral revolution
law of self-interest
32. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
urbanization
middle class
Ludwig van Beethoven
Albert Einstein
33. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
the seed drill
Factory Workers
the cotton gin
law of competition
34. Wrote about poor in cities.
crop rotation
laissez faire
Charles Dickens
principles of economy & taxation
35. What did jethro tull invent?
the spinning jenny
Adam Smith
working class
the seed drill
36. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
Mass Production
factors of production
the flying shuttle
the cotton gin
37. 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.
crop rotation
the flying shuttle
James Watt
Wright Bros.
38. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Laissez-faire
Karl Marx
industrial revolution
factors of production
39. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
the cotton gin
Laissez-faire
Adam Smith
urbanization
40. Luddites were also known as the...
livestock breeding
working class
Laissez-faire
Robert Fulton
41. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
Labor Union
agriculteral revolution
crop rotation
law of competition
42. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
the seed drill
Thomas Edison
Laissez-faire
43. First Usable - practical light bulb.
industrial revolution
Thomas Edison
the water frame
Alexander Graham Bell
44. What did David Richardo write?
the water frame
Charles Dickens
Andrew Carnegie
principles of economy & taxation
45. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
david richardo
law of competition
Communism
clermont
46. Poet who wrote about nature
William Wordsworth
Wright Bros.
Karl Marx
New Economic Theories
47. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
factors of production
Labor Unions
luddites
48. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
factories
Mass Production
the water frame
Communism
49. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
the spinning jenny
Wright Bros.
the steam engine
James Watt
50. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
john mcadams
Louis Pasteur
the flying shuttle
Leo Tolstoy