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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. Poet who wrote about nature






8. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






9. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.






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






11. Organizations representing workers' interests.






12. James watt helped improve what?






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






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






15. Luddites were also known as the...






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






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






18. Organizations representing workers' interests.






19. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?






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






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






22. Wrote about poor in cities.






23. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country






24. First Usable - practical light bulb.






25. James hargreaves invented what?






26. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.






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






28. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






29. Invented the telephone






30. What did Eli Whitney invent?






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






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






33. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved






34. Identical Machine-made parts.






35. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?






36. Theory of evolution






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






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






39. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels






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






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






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






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






44. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






45. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






46. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame






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






48. People can work for their own good






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






50. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.