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Industrial Revolution
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1. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Socialism
Inventions
law of competition
the flying shuttle
2. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Socialism
the cotton gin
urbanization
Louis Pasteur
3. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
the spinning jenny
agriculteral revolution
the seed drill
Charles Darwin
4. Someone who starts a business.
Socialism
Entrepreneur
law of supply & demand
the water frame
5. Wrote about cruelties of war
Karl Marx
middle class
principles of economy & taxation
Leo Tolstoy
6. What did John Kay invent?
agriculteral revolution
Karl Marx
the flying shuttle
Wright Bros.
7. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Alexander Graham Bell
Mass Production
law of supply & demand
Charles Dickens
8. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
law of competition
Leo Tolstoy
9. Theory of evolution
law of self-interest
Adam Smith
Charles Darwin
Mass Production
10. Organizations representing workers' interests.
law of competition
Factory Workers
Labor Unions
Inventions
11. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
Karl Marx
livestock breeding
factories
Factory Workers
12. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
clermont
david richardo
Inventions
Laissez-faire
13. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
New Economic Theories
the steam engine
Assembly Line
Mass Production
14. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
middle class
principles of economy & taxation
Karl Marx
the water frame
15. What did David Richardo write?
laissez faire
robert bakewell
principles of economy & taxation
Interchangeable Parts
16. Defended the idea of a free economy.
david richardo
middle class
Adam Smith
Leo Tolstoy
17. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Wright Bros.
Entrepreneur
Albert Einstein
18. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
laissez faire
Charles Dickens
industrial revolution
Karl Marx
19. 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.
corporation
Socialism
the spinning jenny
the flying shuttle
20. Wrote about poor in cities.
industrial revolution
Charles Dickens
principles of economy & taxation
Andrew Carnegie
21. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
Industrial Revolution
livestock breeding
law of supply & demand
Adam Smith
22. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
Charles Dickens
crop rotation
Communism
david richardo
23. What did Eli Whitney invent?
Communism
the spinning jenny
rocket
the cotton gin
24. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
the steam engine
New Economic Theories
Charles Darwin
25. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
industrialization
Communism
the water frame
david richardo
26. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
factors of production
Alexander Graham Bell
industrialization
rocket
27. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Socialism
Andrew Carnegie
thomas malthus
Laissez-faire
28. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
Adam Smith
Laissez-faire
Samuel Morse
James Watt
29. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
david richardo
thomas malthus
enclosures
the flying shuttle
30. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
the spinning jenny
industrialization
the water frame
Assembly Line
31. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
Andrew Carnegie
law of supply & demand
Leo Tolstoy
corporation
32. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
Adam Smith
the spinning jenny
Laissez-faire
Laissez-faire
33. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
industrialization
Samuel Morse
Laissez-faire
Assembly Line
34. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Mass Production
Laissez-faire
urbanization
New Economic Theories
35. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
Assembly Line
laissez faire
corporation
Andrew Carnegie
36. First Usable - practical light bulb.
Laissez-faire
Thomas Edison
the steam engine
urbanization
37. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
clermont
rocket
Leo Tolstoy
luddites
38. Invented the telephone
the cotton gin
the flying shuttle
James Watt
Alexander Graham Bell
39. Poet who wrote about nature
Entrepreneur
William Wordsworth
Charles Dickens
law of supply & demand
40. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Andrew Carnegie
law of competition
Factory Workers
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
41. People can work for their own good
laissez faire
Entrepreneur
Labor Unions
law of self-interest
42. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Mass Production
Socialism
Assembly Line
Andrew Carnegie
43. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
Adam Smith
crop rotation
industrial revolution
enclosures
44. Luddites were also known as the...
factors of production
Ludwig van Beethoven
rocket
working class
45. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
New Economic Theories
the cotton gin
john mcadams
Andrew Carnegie
46. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
Labor Union
Factory Workers
James Watt
law of supply & demand
47. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
the steam engine
corporation
Assembly Line
the seed drill
48. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
the cotton gin
Adam Smith
agriculteral revolution
49. Theory of relativity
Karl Marx
principles of economy & taxation
Albert Einstein
the flying shuttle
50. What did jethro tull invent?
the seed drill
Andrew Carnegie
thomas malthus
thomas malthus