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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. Organizations representing workers' interests.






2. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.






3. Theory of relativity






4. What did Eli Whitney invent?






5. First Usable - practical light bulb.






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






7. A system in which the government controls the economy.






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






9. The development of industries for the machine production of goods






10. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






11. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






12. Luddites were also known as the...






13. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy






14. Wrote about poor in cities.






15. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






16. What did David Richardo write?






17. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services






18. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






19. People can work for their own good






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






21. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






22. Wrote about cruelties of war






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






24. Theory of evolution






25. Organizations representing workers' interests.






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






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






28. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time






29. 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.






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






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






32. James hargreaves invented what?






33. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






34. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?






35. Invented the telephone






36. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?






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






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






39. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.






40. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels






41. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved






42. Poet who wrote about nature






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






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






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






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






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






48. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.






49. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts






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