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Industrial Revolution
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1. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
Mass Production
principles of economy & taxation
Assembly Line
law of competition
2. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
the water frame
Wright Bros.
Communism
Laissez-faire
3. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
thomas malthus
rocket
Labor Union
law of supply & demand
4. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
thomas malthus
livestock breeding
working class
factories
5. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
law of self-interest
the spinning jenny
Adam Smith
livestock breeding
6. Wrote about cruelties of war
david richardo
the seed drill
Industrial Revolution
Leo Tolstoy
7. First Usable - practical light bulb.
Thomas Edison
david richardo
crop rotation
James Watt
8. What did jethro tull invent?
the seed drill
Thomas Edison
the water frame
thomas malthus
9. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Communism
clermont
Entrepreneur
industrial revolution
10. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Assembly Line
Communism
principles of economy & taxation
robert bakewell
11. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Assembly Line
david richardo
industrialization
thomas malthus
12. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
Socialism
Industrial Revolution
the cotton gin
thomas malthus
13. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
Charles Dickens
the water frame
the flying shuttle
luddites
14. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
the water frame
david richardo
law of supply & demand
Karl Marx
15. Identical Machine-made parts.
Interchangeable Parts
the cotton gin
Samuel Morse
law of supply & demand
16. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
law of self-interest
industrial revolution
law of competition
clermont
17. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Factory Workers
Karl Marx
the water frame
clermont
18. Someone who starts a business.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Labor Union
Entrepreneur
Adam Smith
19. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Robert Fulton
rocket
the cotton gin
the seed drill
20. Defended the idea of a free economy.
rocket
Adam Smith
david richardo
livestock breeding
21. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Laissez-faire
New Economic Theories
Andrew Carnegie
agriculteral revolution
22. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
Wright Bros.
Industrial Revolution
the cotton gin
robert bakewell
23. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
laissez faire
middle class
clermont
corporation
24. Theory of relativity
Ludwig van Beethoven
middle class
law of supply & demand
Albert Einstein
25. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
thomas malthus
Mass Production
law of self-interest
Albert Einstein
26. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
Industrial Revolution
Wright Bros.
livestock breeding
crop rotation
27. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
Assembly Line
Adam Smith
robert bakewell
Charles Darwin
28. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Inventions
Labor Union
david richardo
Karl Marx
29. Theory of evolution
law of supply & demand
Adam Smith
Charles Darwin
Andrew Carnegie
30. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Communism
Socialism
Albert Einstein
principles of economy & taxation
31. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
david richardo
Communism
Interchangeable Parts
Inventions
32. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
agriculteral revolution
david richardo
the spinning jenny
the cotton gin
33. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
Entrepreneur
david richardo
the seed drill
livestock breeding
34. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
Industrial Revolution
enclosures
the water frame
Louis Pasteur
35. Luddites were also known as the...
urbanization
thomas malthus
Laissez-faire
working class
36. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Assembly Line
Communism
Factory Workers
livestock breeding
37. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
thomas malthus
john mcadams
Adam Smith
law of competition
38. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
the water frame
industrial revolution
Adam Smith
john mcadams
39. Poet who wrote about nature
James Watt
livestock breeding
William Wordsworth
Alexander Graham Bell
40. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Laissez-faire
david richardo
Assembly Line
principles of economy & taxation
41. James hargreaves invented what?
William Wordsworth
the spinning jenny
the water frame
James Watt
42. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
laissez faire
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Communism
Andrew Carnegie
43. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
Karl Marx
the flying shuttle
factors of production
Communism
44. What did Eli Whitney invent?
Thomas Edison
the cotton gin
Albert Einstein
industrial revolution
45. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
the spinning jenny
Factory Workers
Andrew Carnegie
agriculteral revolution
46. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
Karl Marx
James Watt
david richardo
Thomas Edison
47. Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
urbanization
clermont
Adam Smith
48. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
factories
Wright Bros.
the cotton gin
the water frame
49. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
the water frame
the seed drill
James Watt
Factory Workers
50. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
the spinning jenny
the seed drill
New Economic Theories
Inventions