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Industrial Revolution
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1. Theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
law of supply & demand
Interchangeable Parts
crop rotation
2. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
Communism
corporation
the spinning jenny
middle class
3. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Wright Bros.
livestock breeding
Labor Unions
industrialization
4. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
principles of economy & taxation
crop rotation
david richardo
Albert Einstein
5. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
the flying shuttle
david richardo
clermont
laissez faire
6. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
Charles Darwin
Labor Unions
the water frame
Assembly Line
7. Identical Machine-made parts.
Mass Production
factors of production
Socialism
Interchangeable Parts
8. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
the cotton gin
Karl Marx
the spinning jenny
Labor Union
9. The time period when power-driven machinery was developed.
Labor Unions
Wright Bros.
Industrial Revolution
Alexander Graham Bell
10. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
Mass Production
the cotton gin
laissez faire
principles of economy & taxation
11. 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.
factors of production
law of supply & demand
Louis Pasteur
the flying shuttle
12. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved
factors of production
rocket
laissez faire
agriculteral revolution
13. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
livestock breeding
robert bakewell
Interchangeable Parts
the cotton gin
14. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
James Watt
the steam engine
Assembly Line
Samuel Morse
15. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Factory Workers
Socialism
the cotton gin
Laissez-faire
16. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Factory Workers
Mass Production
Charles Dickens
law of self-interest
17. Luddites were also known as the...
the seed drill
the steam engine
working class
middle class
18. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
laissez faire
law of self-interest
Assembly Line
Mass Production
19. Defended the idea of a free economy.
Adam Smith
Labor Unions
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
livestock breeding
20. Rivalry forces peoples to do better @ anything & also inspires peoples to make a better product
law of competition
Andrew Carnegie
James Watt
Laissez-faire
21. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
the steam engine
Entrepreneur
Adam Smith
Inventions
22. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
thomas malthus
law of self-interest
luddites
23. James hargreaves invented what?
law of competition
the spinning jenny
the steam engine
Socialism
24. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
robert bakewell
factories
clermont
Laissez-faire
25. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops
Albert Einstein
industrialization
the seed drill
john mcadams
26. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Socialism
the water frame
law of supply & demand
laissez faire
27. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Communism
William Wordsworth
david richardo
middle class
28. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
Karl Marx
factories
industrial revolution
Mass Production
29. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
Charles Darwin
livestock breeding
Karl Marx
Factory Workers
30. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
enclosures
factors of production
Karl Marx
Laissez-faire
31. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
the seed drill
rocket
Mass Production
New Economic Theories
32. The leading advocate of Laissez-faire economics; invented capitalism.
factories
Leo Tolstoy
enclosures
Adam Smith
33. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Thomas Edison
Karl Marx
the water frame
Samuel Morse
34. Theory of evolution
industrialization
Assembly Line
Charles Darwin
Laissez-faire
35. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
Ludwig van Beethoven
thomas malthus
Samuel Morse
Assembly Line
36. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Labor Unions
Louis Pasteur
the flying shuttle
thomas malthus
37. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Assembly Line
Adam Smith
the seed drill
middle class
38. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
industrial revolution
working class
Assembly Line
industrialization
39. Organizations representing workers' interests.
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
crop rotation
Labor Union
Inventions
40. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
Industrial Revolution
law of supply & demand
crop rotation
john mcadams
41. First Usable - practical light bulb.
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
middle class
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
42. What did Eli Whitney invent?
the cotton gin
Socialism
robert bakewell
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
43. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?
industrialization
Robert Fulton
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
urbanization
44. What did John Kay invent?
enclosures
the flying shuttle
industrial revolution
the seed drill
45. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
laissez faire
the water frame
luddites
Louis Pasteur
46. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Mass Production
principles of economy & taxation
the spinning jenny
Charles Darwin
47. What did jethro tull invent?
Assembly Line
the seed drill
the steam engine
the flying shuttle
48. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
the water frame
Ludwig van Beethoven
Communism
laissez faire
49. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
Louis Pasteur
Laissez-faire
Ludwig van Beethoven
the flying shuttle
50. Invented the telephone
david richardo
Entrepreneur
Alexander Graham Bell
industrialization