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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.






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






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






4. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






5. What did David Richardo write?






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






7. People can work for their own good






8. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Wrote about cruelties of war






21. Someone who starts a business.






22. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






23. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






24. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






25. Poet who wrote about nature






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






27. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






28. Theory of evolution






29. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






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






31. 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.






32. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. What did jethro tull invent?






42. Defended the idea of a free economy.






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






44. Identical Machine-made parts.






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






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






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






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






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






50. Invented the telephone