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Industrial Revolution
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1. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Assembly Line
Entrepreneur
middle class
the flying shuttle
2. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Labor Unions
Albert Einstein
industrial revolution
3. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
Assembly Line
industrial revolution
Interchangeable Parts
Samuel Morse
4. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
the spinning jenny
Wright Bros.
Interchangeable Parts
Factory Workers
5. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
Inventions
working class
New Economic Theories
Samuel Morse
6. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
industrialization
working class
the flying shuttle
Karl Marx
7. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
the flying shuttle
Factory Workers
Robert Fulton
the cotton gin
8. What did jethro tull invent?
john mcadams
the spinning jenny
the seed drill
Communism
9. First Usable - practical light bulb.
Thomas Edison
robert bakewell
Mass Production
Andrew Carnegie
10. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
Socialism
john mcadams
Mass Production
factors of production
11. Someone who starts a business.
Assembly Line
Entrepreneur
law of competition
Andrew Carnegie
12. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
enclosures
New Economic Theories
Karl Marx
Ludwig van Beethoven
13. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Communism
clermont
enclosures
Thomas Edison
14. What did David Richardo write?
Karl Marx
Factory Workers
Andrew Carnegie
principles of economy & taxation
15. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
Mass Production
Inventions
Adam Smith
laissez faire
16. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
urbanization
Labor Union
industrialization
Inventions
17. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Industrial Revolution
Mass Production
the flying shuttle
Wright Bros.
18. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
principles of economy & taxation
luddites
the seed drill
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
19. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
middle class
James Watt
law of self-interest
the seed drill
20. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
Adam Smith
Factory Workers
Entrepreneur
Socialism
21. Identical Machine-made parts.
Interchangeable Parts
robert bakewell
law of supply & demand
Labor Unions
22. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
david richardo
Factory Workers
Socialism
the seed drill
23. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
corporation
Mass Production
Karl Marx
Andrew Carnegie
24. People can work for their own good
urbanization
law of self-interest
Charles Darwin
Mass Production
25. What did Eli Whitney invent?
Labor Unions
david richardo
Labor Union
the cotton gin
26. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
Karl Marx
the cotton gin
enclosures
david richardo
27. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
the seed drill
Labor Union
the water frame
the cotton gin
28. What did John Kay invent?
the flying shuttle
law of supply & demand
Karl Marx
Assembly Line
29. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
clermont
Mass Production
Labor Union
Industrial Revolution
30. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
luddites
Louis Pasteur
working class
Socialism
31. Theory of evolution
the water frame
Charles Darwin
James Watt
livestock breeding
32. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Communism
Assembly Line
the water frame
Robert Fulton
33. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
crop rotation
rocket
Thomas Edison
Leo Tolstoy
34. Invented the telephone
Laissez-faire
clermont
john mcadams
Alexander Graham Bell
35. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
James Watt
luddites
david richardo
Andrew Carnegie
36. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
principles of economy & taxation
factors of production
Industrial Revolution
Socialism
37. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
the spinning jenny
Socialism
agriculteral revolution
factors of production
38. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Laissez-faire
Leo Tolstoy
crop rotation
thomas malthus
39. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
middle class
Inventions
working class
Karl Marx
40. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
Socialism
Adam Smith
Communism
Andrew Carnegie
41. Defended the idea of a free economy.
law of supply & demand
Albert Einstein
industrial revolution
Adam Smith
42. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Adam Smith
Assembly Line
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Labor Unions
43. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
Leo Tolstoy
Entrepreneur
clermont
law of supply & demand
44. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
the water frame
Communism
david richardo
Inventions
45. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Charles Darwin
Karl Marx
Robert Fulton
Mass Production
46. Luddites were also known as the...
working class
Louis Pasteur
Labor Union
law of supply & demand
47. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
robert bakewell
enclosures
rocket
the seed drill
48. Wrote about cruelties of war
Leo Tolstoy
principles of economy & taxation
Adam Smith
law of self-interest
49. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
middle class
Factory Workers
david richardo
enclosures
50. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
the water frame
the steam engine
the spinning jenny
Karl Marx