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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. James watt helped improve what?






2. Wrote about cruelties of war






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






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






5. Luddites were also known as the...






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






7. Organizations representing workers' interests.






8. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases






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






10. Invented the telephone






11. Theory of evolution






12. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






14. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






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






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






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






18. What did David Richardo write?






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






20. Poet who wrote about nature






21. The idea that government should not interfere in business.






22. People can work for their own good






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






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






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






26. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






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






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






29. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






30. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






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






32. Identical Machine-made parts.






33. What did jethro tull invent?






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






40. Theory of relativity






41. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






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






43. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






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






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






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






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






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






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






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