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Industrial Revolution
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1. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
Karl Marx
Wright Bros.
Interchangeable Parts
Assembly Line
2. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
the seed drill
Assembly Line
the spinning jenny
Adam Smith
3. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
agriculteral revolution
law of supply & demand
the water frame
livestock breeding
4. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Ludwig van Beethoven
Louis Pasteur
law of supply & demand
Andrew Carnegie
5. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
Adam Smith
the water frame
the cotton gin
corporation
6. 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.
urbanization
the flying shuttle
law of competition
Samuel Morse
7. First Usable - practical light bulb.
Thomas Edison
the water frame
Industrial Revolution
Charles Darwin
8. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
luddites
William Wordsworth
Adam Smith
Inventions
9. Identical Machine-made parts.
Interchangeable Parts
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
corporation
Leo Tolstoy
10. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
rocket
Robert Fulton
Inventions
Karl Marx
11. Organizations representing workers' interests.
factors of production
Industrial Revolution
Leo Tolstoy
Labor Unions
12. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
Assembly Line
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Assembly Line
law of supply & demand
13. What did John Kay invent?
the spinning jenny
the spinning jenny
the flying shuttle
factors of production
14. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
the seed drill
Socialism
Communism
law of competition
15. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
the spinning jenny
the cotton gin
robert bakewell
Socialism
16. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Assembly Line
the spinning jenny
corporation
david richardo
17. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
factories
Labor Unions
Karl Marx
industrial revolution
18. What did David Richardo write?
principles of economy & taxation
agriculteral revolution
livestock breeding
Factory Workers
19. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
middle class
William Wordsworth
factories
rocket
20. Poet who wrote about nature
corporation
Socialism
William Wordsworth
the seed drill
21. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
clermont
New Economic Theories
crop rotation
agriculteral revolution
22. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Wright Bros.
Karl Marx
Andrew Carnegie
Albert Einstein
23. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Thomas Edison
Laissez-faire
Assembly Line
the flying shuttle
24. What did Eli Whitney invent?
Louis Pasteur
the cotton gin
Adam Smith
Socialism
25. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Leo Tolstoy
Factory Workers
Andrew Carnegie
James Watt
26. James watt helped improve what?
Labor Union
Albert Einstein
Mass Production
the steam engine
27. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
Ludwig van Beethoven
the seed drill
crop rotation
the seed drill
28. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
factors of production
William Wordsworth
Communism
Assembly Line
29. Theory of evolution
Communism
industrial revolution
Interchangeable Parts
Charles Darwin
30. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
david richardo
enclosures
Thomas Edison
clermont
31. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
the seed drill
Assembly Line
Labor Unions
luddites
32. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
john mcadams
livestock breeding
enclosures
the water frame
33. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
thomas malthus
principles of economy & taxation
livestock breeding
the steam engine
34. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Socialism
john mcadams
the flying shuttle
the water frame
35. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
Adam Smith
the cotton gin
working class
Samuel Morse
36. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
corporation
Inventions
urbanization
livestock breeding
37. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
thomas malthus
Wright Bros.
factors of production
New Economic Theories
38. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
principles of economy & taxation
James Watt
Thomas Edison
Mass Production
39. A system in which the government controls the economy.
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Mass Production
Communism
principles of economy & taxation
40. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
david richardo
Charles Dickens
the water frame
Thomas Edison
41. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
middle class
robert bakewell
enclosures
working class
42. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Mass Production
Andrew Carnegie
Socialism
the water frame
43. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
New Economic Theories
law of competition
david richardo
middle class
44. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
industrialization
working class
law of competition
robert bakewell
45. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
William Wordsworth
the cotton gin
Inventions
46. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Assembly Line
Charles Dickens
Karl Marx
Mass Production
47. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
urbanization
Thomas Edison
Karl Marx
the water frame
48. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
the spinning jenny
Karl Marx
Communism
the water frame
49. People can work for their own good
enclosures
law of self-interest
david richardo
Communism
50. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
Albert Einstein
industrialization
Adam Smith
James Watt