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Industrial Revolution
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1. What did jethro tull invent?
Thomas Edison
Robert Fulton
the seed drill
Entrepreneur
2. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.
Socialism
Samuel Morse
Industrial Revolution
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
3. Wrote about poor in cities.
Entrepreneur
Charles Dickens
Communism
Inventions
4. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
the spinning jenny
Factory Workers
Adam Smith
Alexander Graham Bell
5. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
Adam Smith
law of self-interest
the cotton gin
thomas malthus
6. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
factors of production
Albert Einstein
industrial revolution
Entrepreneur
7. Luddites were also known as the...
middle class
the water frame
Inventions
working class
8. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Labor Union
Socialism
david richardo
Mass Production
9. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
Entrepreneur
law of supply & demand
industrial revolution
thomas malthus
10. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
Alexander Graham Bell
Interchangeable Parts
the cotton gin
11. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
the water frame
corporation
Mass Production
Thomas Edison
12. 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.
James Watt
the flying shuttle
clermont
Charles Dickens
13. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Dickens
agriculteral revolution
law of supply & demand
14. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
agriculteral revolution
Inventions
Andrew Carnegie
luddites
15. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
law of competition
Laissez-faire
Adam Smith
Factory Workers
16. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
luddites
the steam engine
Karl Marx
thomas malthus
17. First Usable - practical light bulb.
rocket
Labor Unions
enclosures
Thomas Edison
18. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
the seed drill
Louis Pasteur
the flying shuttle
Adam Smith
19. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
corporation
Karl Marx
Andrew Carnegie
industrialization
20. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
Samuel Morse
the water frame
Ludwig van Beethoven
law of competition
21. Wrote about cruelties of war
Socialism
industrialization
Assembly Line
Leo Tolstoy
22. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
the seed drill
david richardo
luddites
factories
23. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
Andrew Carnegie
the cotton gin
clermont
rocket
24. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
livestock breeding
robert bakewell
New Economic Theories
William Wordsworth
25. Theory of evolution
middle class
Alexander Graham Bell
livestock breeding
Charles Darwin
26. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
livestock breeding
James Watt
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Ludwig van Beethoven
27. What did John Kay invent?
William Wordsworth
industrialization
the water frame
the flying shuttle
28. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
the water frame
law of self-interest
James Watt
Charles Dickens
29. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
david richardo
livestock breeding
principles of economy & taxation
the steam engine
30. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
Labor Unions
clermont
Laissez-faire
agriculteral revolution
31. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism
Karl Marx
agriculteral revolution
New Economic Theories
Albert Einstein
32. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Factory Workers
Entrepreneur
law of self-interest
Assembly Line
33. People can work for their own good
Laissez-faire
law of self-interest
Karl Marx
john mcadams
34. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Karl Marx
law of supply & demand
Communism
factories
35. James hargreaves invented what?
the spinning jenny
Communism
Louis Pasteur
the seed drill
36. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
Wright Bros.
Assembly Line
laissez faire
Interchangeable Parts
37. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Socialism
Industrial Revolution
Louis Pasteur
the flying shuttle
38. Who wrote an essay on the principle of population?
Laissez-faire
the cotton gin
david richardo
thomas malthus
39. What did Eli Whitney invent?
Andrew Carnegie
the cotton gin
William Wordsworth
livestock breeding
40. Identical Machine-made parts.
Laissez-faire
Interchangeable Parts
crop rotation
Labor Unions
41. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
Industrial Revolution
Alexander Graham Bell
thomas malthus
Karl Marx
42. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Labor Union
Industrial Revolution
Laissez-faire
William Wordsworth
43. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Laissez-faire
Leo Tolstoy
Ludwig van Beethoven
principles of economy & taxation
44. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Laissez-faire
the steam engine
Assembly Line
the cotton gin
45. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
the water frame
rocket
Mass Production
Albert Einstein
46. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
Inventions
Assembly Line
david richardo
john mcadams
47. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Louis Pasteur
Labor Unions
Samuel Morse
Socialism
48. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
William Wordsworth
Inventions
Robert Fulton
Assembly Line
49. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
the spinning jenny
clermont
middle class
50. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
laissez faire
Socialism
the cotton gin
urbanization