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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. People can work for their own good






2. Someone who starts a business.






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






4. Theory of relativity






5. First Usable - practical light bulb.






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






7. Identical Machine-made parts.






8. Wrote about poor in cities.






9. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






10. Invented the telephone






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






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






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






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






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






16. Luddites were also known as the...






17. What did John Kay invent?






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






19. 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.






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






21. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






23. What did Eli Whitney invent?






24. Poet who wrote about nature






25. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






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






27. Wrote about cruelties of war






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






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






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






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






32. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






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






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






35. Theory of evolution






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






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






38. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy






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






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






41. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






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






43. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






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






45. What did jethro tull invent?






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






47. James watt helped improve what?






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






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






50. Defended the idea of a free economy.