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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. Invented the telephone






2. 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.






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






4. People can work for their own good






5. James watt helped improve what?






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






13. Someone who starts a business.






14. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






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






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






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






18. James hargreaves invented what?






19. Identical Machine-made parts.






20. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






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






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






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






24. What did jethro tull invent?






25. What did Eli Whitney invent?






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






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






28. Theory of relativity






29. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






30. Organizations representing workers' interests.






31. Defended the idea of a free economy.






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






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






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






35. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






36. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






37. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






38. First Usable - practical light bulb.






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






40. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame






41. Wrote about poor in cities.






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






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






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






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






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






47. What did John Kay invent?






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






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






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