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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
law of supply & demand
law of self-interest
Socialism
law of competition
2. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
john mcadams
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Darwin
Industrial Revolution
3. What did David Richardo write?
the spinning jenny
principles of economy & taxation
Andrew Carnegie
middle class
4. Theory of evolution
urbanization
Charles Darwin
Interchangeable Parts
rocket
5. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.
Entrepreneur
Samuel Morse
middle class
the seed drill
6. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Karl Marx
david richardo
crop rotation
7. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
luddites
livestock breeding
urbanization
factories
8. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
William Wordsworth
the water frame
robert bakewell
Samuel Morse
9. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Mass Production
the steam engine
Andrew Carnegie
Alexander Graham Bell
10. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
Interchangeable Parts
urbanization
the seed drill
Andrew Carnegie
11. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
Ludwig van Beethoven
middle class
Laissez-faire
the cotton gin
12. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
david richardo
Labor Union
Adam Smith
factories
13. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
corporation
Andrew Carnegie
agriculteral revolution
the water frame
14. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Charles Darwin
Laissez-faire
laissez faire
Samuel Morse
15. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
livestock breeding
the spinning jenny
principles of economy & taxation
Karl Marx
16. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
Albert Einstein
factors of production
thomas malthus
luddites
17. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
Ludwig van Beethoven
laissez faire
principles of economy & taxation
Mass Production
18. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Robert Fulton
principles of economy & taxation
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
law of supply & demand
19. Invented the telephone
working class
Alexander Graham Bell
Adam Smith
livestock breeding
20. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
david richardo
the steam engine
law of supply & demand
Andrew Carnegie
21. James hargreaves invented what?
Charles Dickens
the spinning jenny
rocket
Industrial Revolution
22. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
laissez faire
William Wordsworth
Mass Production
thomas malthus
23. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
the seed drill
principles of economy & taxation
crop rotation
Adam Smith
24. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
Andrew Carnegie
law of self-interest
rocket
agriculteral revolution
25. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
Entrepreneur
industrial revolution
middle class
Alexander Graham Bell
26. 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.
the flying shuttle
Robert Fulton
john mcadams
Assembly Line
27. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
factories
agriculteral revolution
working class
Industrial Revolution
28. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
corporation
robert bakewell
Communism
Mass Production
29. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
factors of production
industrialization
Laissez-faire
the flying shuttle
30. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Louis Pasteur
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
thomas malthus
Karl Marx
31. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Mass Production
Adam Smith
Entrepreneur
Inventions
32. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Assembly Line
the flying shuttle
Inventions
Labor Unions
33. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
Louis Pasteur
agriculteral revolution
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Adam Smith
34. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
industrial revolution
Karl Marx
the water frame
New Economic Theories
35. What did John Kay invent?
Labor Unions
the flying shuttle
Louis Pasteur
the water frame
36. People can work for their own good
the spinning jenny
law of self-interest
livestock breeding
Interchangeable Parts
37. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Laissez-faire
Ludwig van Beethoven
working class
Mass Production
38. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Labor Union
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Darwin
law of supply & demand
39. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
the seed drill
the spinning jenny
enclosures
Assembly Line
40. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Louis Pasteur
corporation
luddites
factors of production
41. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
Communism
Inventions
Robert Fulton
principles of economy & taxation
42. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
James Watt
New Economic Theories
Leo Tolstoy
Inventions
43. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
clermont
the steam engine
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wright Bros.
44. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
factors of production
James Watt
Karl Marx
working class
45. A system in which the government controls the economy.
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Communism
Albert Einstein
industrialization
46. What did jethro tull invent?
Laissez-faire
Adam Smith
the seed drill
agriculteral revolution
47. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Samuel Morse
law of self-interest
Laissez-faire
Andrew Carnegie
48. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
the cotton gin
principles of economy & taxation
the spinning jenny
Leo Tolstoy
49. Someone who starts a business.
livestock breeding
the seed drill
Communism
Entrepreneur
50. Luddites were also known as the...
Mass Production
Labor Unions
the cotton gin
working class