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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.






2. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






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






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






5. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






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






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






9. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Theory of evolution






18. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






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






20. People can work for their own good






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






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






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






24. James hargreaves invented what?






25. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






26. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.






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






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






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






30. Organizations representing workers' interests.






31. Theory of relativity






32. Someone who starts a business.






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






34. First Usable - practical light bulb.






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. Wrote about cruelties of war






40. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.






41. Defended the idea of a free economy.






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






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






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






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






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






47. Identical Machine-made parts.






48. What did David Richardo write?






49. Poet who wrote about nature






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