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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them






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






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






4. People can work for their own good






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






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






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






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






9. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






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






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






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






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






14. Wrote about poor in cities.






15. What did jethro tull invent?






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






17. What did John Kay invent?






18. James watt helped improve what?






19. Invented the telephone






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






21. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






23. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






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






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






33. Theory of relativity






34. James hargreaves invented what?






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






36. Someone who starts a business.






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






38. Wrote about cruelties of war






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






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






41. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






42. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






43. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






44. What did Eli Whitney invent?






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






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






47. Defended the idea of a free economy.






48. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






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






50. Poet who wrote about nature