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Industrial Revolution
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1. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Adam Smith
Wright Bros.
Leo Tolstoy
Robert Fulton
2. Wrote about poor in cities.
the seed drill
industrialization
Charles Dickens
livestock breeding
3. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Factory Workers
Assembly Line
Andrew Carnegie
Karl Marx
4. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
the cotton gin
crop rotation
Interchangeable Parts
5. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Socialism
principles of economy & taxation
Adam Smith
the steam engine
6. Luddites were also known as the...
working class
laissez faire
crop rotation
Ludwig van Beethoven
7. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
corporation
urbanization
robert bakewell
livestock breeding
8. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
the steam engine
factors of production
law of self-interest
Interchangeable Parts
9. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
crop rotation
Labor Union
Industrial Revolution
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
10. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
the cotton gin
Entrepreneur
law of supply & demand
thomas malthus
11. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Robert Fulton
Assembly Line
john mcadams
Communism
12. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
the seed drill
Inventions
the steam engine
rocket
13. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
Alexander Graham Bell
robert bakewell
Industrial Revolution
William Wordsworth
14. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Laissez-faire
Samuel Morse
the water frame
thomas malthus
15. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
Thomas Edison
enclosures
Robert Fulton
middle class
16. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
Entrepreneur
Laissez-faire
the seed drill
Socialism
17. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
the spinning jenny
the water frame
Industrial Revolution
laissez faire
18. James hargreaves invented what?
the spinning jenny
Thomas Edison
laissez faire
Charles Dickens
19. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
david richardo
laissez faire
thomas malthus
Assembly Line
20. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
law of supply & demand
Charles Dickens
Ludwig van Beethoven
middle class
21. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Laissez-faire
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
22. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
the water frame
enclosures
john mcadams
Industrial Revolution
23. What did John Kay invent?
Socialism
the flying shuttle
the seed drill
john mcadams
24. What did Eli Whitney invent?
Robert Fulton
Factory Workers
the cotton gin
working class
25. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
the cotton gin
industrial revolution
factors of production
law of competition
26. What did jethro tull invent?
Inventions
Socialism
the seed drill
the flying shuttle
27. 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 water frame
Samuel Morse
Inventions
the flying shuttle
28. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
thomas malthus
Entrepreneur
Factory Workers
the seed drill
29. Theory of relativity
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
law of self-interest
Assembly Line
30. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
rocket
principles of economy & taxation
Socialism
laissez faire
31. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
Industrial Revolution
Factory Workers
crop rotation
32. Someone who starts a business.
Inventions
Andrew Carnegie
Entrepreneur
Adam Smith
33. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Socialism
Interchangeable Parts
law of competition
Labor Union
34. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
crop rotation
law of competition
urbanization
Mass Production
35. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
the spinning jenny
livestock breeding
Andrew Carnegie
Laissez-faire
36. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.
Mass Production
Alexander Graham Bell
Samuel Morse
industrialization
37. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Louis Pasteur
Adam Smith
Samuel Morse
Karl Marx
38. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
working class
Communism
enclosures
the spinning jenny
39. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
david richardo
the seed drill
factories
Entrepreneur
40. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
Adam Smith
factories
law of competition
Entrepreneur
41. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
Karl Marx
the water frame
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
david richardo
42. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
industrialization
Entrepreneur
laissez faire
Inventions
43. A system in which the government controls the economy.
industrialization
Communism
New Economic Theories
Laissez-faire
44. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
law of competition
crop rotation
Charles Dickens
Wright Bros.
45. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
James Watt
Andrew Carnegie
clermont
Adam Smith
46. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
industrialization
thomas malthus
law of competition
47. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
the water frame
urbanization
law of self-interest
david richardo
48. Invented the telephone
the cotton gin
Factory Workers
Laissez-faire
Alexander Graham Bell
49. Defended the idea of a free economy.
Adam Smith
thomas malthus
Labor Unions
the seed drill
50. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
William Wordsworth
the seed drill
Wright Bros.
Assembly Line