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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. Defended the idea of a free economy.






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






3. 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.






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






5. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






6. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






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






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






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






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






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






12. Someone who starts a business.






13. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






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






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






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






17. People can work for their own good






18. Wrote about cruelties of war






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






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






21. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






29. Invented the telephone






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






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






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






33. What did John Kay invent?






34. Identical Machine-made parts.






35. What did Eli Whitney invent?






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






37. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






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






39. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






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






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






43. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






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






45. Luddites were also known as the...






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






47. Theory of evolution






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






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






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