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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.






2. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned






3. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?






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






5. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame






6. First Usable - practical light bulb.






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






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






9. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them






10. Wrote about poor in cities.






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






12. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






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






14. Theory of relativity






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






16. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






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






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






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






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






21. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.






22. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap






23. Identical Machine-made parts.






24. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






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






26. James watt helped improve what?






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






28. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country






29. Wrote about cruelties of war






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






31. 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.






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






33. What did John Kay invent?






34. Invented the telephone






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






36. Someone who starts a business.






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






38. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on






39. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






40. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






41. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.






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






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






44. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






45. Poet who wrote about nature






46. Luddites were also known as the...






47. What did Eli Whitney invent?






48. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited






49. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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