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Industrial Revolution
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1. Wrote about cruelties of war
Thomas Edison
Mass Production
Adam Smith
Leo Tolstoy
2. Defended the idea of a free economy.
law of competition
Adam Smith
factors of production
Andrew Carnegie
3. James watt helped improve what?
William Wordsworth
the steam engine
Charles Darwin
Leo Tolstoy
4. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
Samuel Morse
Ludwig van Beethoven
livestock breeding
the seed drill
5. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
robert bakewell
Andrew Carnegie
the seed drill
the flying shuttle
6. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Laissez-faire
Charles Darwin
law of competition
Andrew Carnegie
7. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
Entrepreneur
working class
Robert Fulton
the seed drill
8. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
Assembly Line
robert bakewell
Adam Smith
Factory Workers
9. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
thomas malthus
factors of production
working class
industrialization
10. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
the spinning jenny
the water frame
Albert Einstein
corporation
11. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Adam Smith
Laissez-faire
law of self-interest
Communism
12. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
Adam Smith
Andrew Carnegie
thomas malthus
the seed drill
13. Wrote about poor in cities.
rocket
Socialism
Charles Dickens
Laissez-faire
14. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
law of self-interest
Robert Fulton
middle class
Karl Marx
15. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
James Watt
law of competition
Factory Workers
david richardo
16. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
the steam engine
Louis Pasteur
Assembly Line
Robert Fulton
17. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Andrew Carnegie
Leo Tolstoy
Albert Einstein
18. 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.
Socialism
New Economic Theories
the flying shuttle
Interchangeable Parts
19. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
Socialism
the water frame
Adam Smith
urbanization
20. Poet who wrote about nature
laissez faire
William Wordsworth
crop rotation
the spinning jenny
21. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
john mcadams
law of self-interest
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
the cotton gin
22. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
industrial revolution
Inventions
Louis Pasteur
Andrew Carnegie
23. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
the cotton gin
agriculteral revolution
urbanization
Adam Smith
24. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
the seed drill
crop rotation
the steam engine
corporation
25. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Mass Production
Interchangeable Parts
Robert Fulton
Laissez-faire
26. James hargreaves invented what?
david richardo
the spinning jenny
the flying shuttle
Samuel Morse
27. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
factories
Leo Tolstoy
Ludwig van Beethoven
clermont
28. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Karl Marx
industrialization
the seed drill
law of supply & demand
29. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Communism
Interchangeable Parts
Albert Einstein
industrialization
30. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
Labor Unions
factories
law of supply & demand
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
31. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
industrialization
the water frame
factors of production
Mass Production
32. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Laissez-faire
Labor Union
Samuel Morse
the cotton gin
33. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
clermont
crop rotation
the seed drill
Industrial Revolution
34. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Socialism
the cotton gin
Albert Einstein
the seed drill
35. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
Assembly Line
law of supply & demand
thomas malthus
the cotton gin
36. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Ludwig van Beethoven
New Economic Theories
Assembly Line
crop rotation
37. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
Adam Smith
the water frame
the cotton gin
law of competition
38. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
crop rotation
john mcadams
Assembly Line
enclosures
39. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Communism
crop rotation
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Factory Workers
40. What did Eli Whitney invent?
principles of economy & taxation
Mass Production
law of competition
the cotton gin
41. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Factory Workers
Andrew Carnegie
Adam Smith
Entrepreneur
42. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
Assembly Line
the spinning jenny
crop rotation
Wright Bros.
43. What did John Kay invent?
Albert Einstein
the flying shuttle
the spinning jenny
rocket
44. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Mass Production
Charles Dickens
law of competition
middle class
45. Organizations representing workers' interests.
William Wordsworth
Labor Unions
Adam Smith
New Economic Theories
46. Invented the telephone
Andrew Carnegie
Louis Pasteur
Alexander Graham Bell
industrial revolution
47. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
the seed drill
david richardo
Entrepreneur
principles of economy & taxation
48. People can work for their own good
the flying shuttle
law of self-interest
Laissez-faire
Andrew Carnegie
49. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Robert Fulton
Assembly Line
the cotton gin
factories
50. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
Louis Pasteur
Charles Darwin
principles of economy & taxation
thomas malthus