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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. James watt helped improve what?






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






3. What did jethro tull invent?






4. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods






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






6. Poet who wrote about nature






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






8. Theory of evolution






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. Defended the idea of a free economy.






14. Wrote about poor in cities.






15. Someone who starts a business.






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






17. Luddites were also known as the...






18. James hargreaves invented what?






19. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.






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






21. Invented the telephone






22. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?






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






24. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class






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






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






27. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






28. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently






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






30. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy






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






32. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.






33. Identical Machine-made parts.






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






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






36. First Usable - practical light bulb.






37. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.






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






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






40. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






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






42. What did David Richardo write?






43. What did Eli Whitney invent?






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






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






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






47. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






48. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






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






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