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