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