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Industrial Revolution
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1. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Laissez-faire
robert bakewell
Assembly Line
law of supply & demand
2. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Inventions
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Leo Tolstoy
Robert Fulton
3. Poet who wrote about nature
William Wordsworth
Factory Workers
corporation
Laissez-faire
4. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
urbanization
Interchangeable Parts
Adam Smith
the water frame
5. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.
laissez faire
Samuel Morse
Communism
Assembly Line
6. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
factories
the seed drill
Laissez-faire
middle class
7. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
Charles Dickens
Adam Smith
the seed drill
clermont
8. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
Factory Workers
livestock breeding
Adam Smith
Socialism
9. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
Adam Smith
david richardo
thomas malthus
Karl Marx
10. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
Industrial Revolution
Andrew Carnegie
enclosures
the seed drill
11. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
the seed drill
luddites
Labor Unions
david richardo
12. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Assembly Line
Socialism
clermont
Charles Dickens
13. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
Alexander Graham Bell
industrial revolution
James Watt
crop rotation
14. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
the water frame
Adam Smith
Wright Bros.
Interchangeable Parts
15. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services
factors of production
the water frame
the seed drill
Alexander Graham Bell
16. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
Wright Bros.
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
clermont
Adam Smith
17. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
Karl Marx
Inventions
James Watt
the steam engine
18. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
Labor Union
Thomas Edison
Mass Production
urbanization
19. Luddites were also known as the...
Factory Workers
working class
rocket
Karl Marx
20. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Labor Unions
the spinning jenny
Adam Smith
the seed drill
21. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Thomas Edison
Communism
rocket
Louis Pasteur
22. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
the flying shuttle
industrialization
the spinning jenny
Charles Dickens
23. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
principles of economy & taxation
Socialism
Interchangeable Parts
law of supply & demand
24. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
thomas malthus
Laissez-faire
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Alexander Graham Bell
25. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
law of supply & demand
the seed drill
Leo Tolstoy
robert bakewell
26. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
middle class
the cotton gin
the water frame
Andrew Carnegie
27. Wrote about poor in cities.
laissez faire
Charles Dickens
agriculteral revolution
Andrew Carnegie
28. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
the cotton gin
enclosures
law of supply & demand
livestock breeding
29. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
david richardo
Entrepreneur
Ludwig van Beethoven
Socialism
30. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
luddites
law of supply & demand
Adam Smith
Industrial Revolution
31. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
James Watt
Andrew Carnegie
thomas malthus
Louis Pasteur
32. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Alexander Graham Bell
Mass Production
Factory Workers
Socialism
33. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
factors of production
Industrial Revolution
Laissez-faire
corporation
34. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
corporation
William Wordsworth
robert bakewell
industrial revolution
35. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
law of self-interest
James Watt
Adam Smith
Interchangeable Parts
36. James hargreaves invented what?
the cotton gin
industrialization
Labor Union
the spinning jenny
37. What did Eli Whitney invent?
the steam engine
the cotton gin
Assembly Line
laissez faire
38. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
the cotton gin
Robert Fulton
Adam Smith
industrialization
39. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
middle class
john mcadams
Robert Fulton
thomas malthus
40. James watt helped improve what?
enclosures
the cotton gin
the steam engine
Socialism
41. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
the flying shuttle
New Economic Theories
david richardo
the spinning jenny
42. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
Adam Smith
david richardo
Socialism
john mcadams
43. 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.
Communism
Ludwig van Beethoven
livestock breeding
the flying shuttle
44. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Labor Unions
James Watt
Karl Marx
Mass Production
45. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Ludwig van Beethoven
Charles Darwin
Socialism
agriculteral revolution
46. Identical Machine-made parts.
Adam Smith
Interchangeable Parts
law of supply & demand
factors of production
47. Theory of evolution
david richardo
New Economic Theories
the spinning jenny
Charles Darwin
48. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
laissez faire
Factory Workers
Socialism
Entrepreneur
49. Machine used water power from streams to power spinning wheels
factories
the water frame
thomas malthus
factors of production
50. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
the flying shuttle
Socialism
law of supply & demand
agriculteral revolution