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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






2. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






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






4. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






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






6. 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.






7. First Usable - practical light bulb.






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






9. Identical Machine-made parts.






10. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?






11. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






13. What did John Kay invent?






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






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






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






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






18. What did David Richardo write?






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






20. Poet who wrote about nature






21. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






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






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






24. What did Eli Whitney invent?






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






26. James watt helped improve what?






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






28. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services






29. Theory of evolution






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






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






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






48. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






49. People can work for their own good






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