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Industrial Revolution
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1. Expressed love of nature in symphonies
industrial revolution
Ludwig van Beethoven
the spinning jenny
Inventions
2. What did David Richardo write?
david richardo
Socialism
the spinning jenny
principles of economy & taxation
3. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy
law of supply & demand
the spinning jenny
laissez faire
Mass Production
4. Theory of relativity
the water frame
Albert Einstein
middle class
Entrepreneur
5. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
Samuel Morse
Labor Union
Inventions
Entrepreneur
6. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
factories
working class
Karl Marx
david richardo
7. What did jethro tull invent?
the seed drill
Adam Smith
Charles Darwin
the spinning jenny
8. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
industrial revolution
enclosures
Entrepreneur
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
9. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
James Watt
enclosures
urbanization
rocket
10. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
law of self-interest
robert bakewell
law of competition
industrialization
11. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
Laissez-faire
Socialism
James Watt
the seed drill
12. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
law of competition
laissez faire
Andrew Carnegie
Labor Union
13. Wrote about cruelties of war
Laissez-faire
Karl Marx
Leo Tolstoy
crop rotation
14. Organizations representing workers' interests.
the flying shuttle
Adam Smith
Labor Unions
the seed drill
15. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
factors of production
the flying shuttle
Adam Smith
livestock breeding
16. Someone who starts a business.
law of supply & demand
Entrepreneur
Laissez-faire
Adam Smith
17. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
the spinning jenny
the seed drill
factors of production
Laissez-faire
18. Theory of evolution
Socialism
the seed drill
Charles Darwin
enclosures
19. 1st successful powered airplane flight.
rocket
Wright Bros.
industrialization
Inventions
20. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
James Watt
Adam Smith
William Wordsworth
clermont
21. The system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertileness of the land
Samuel Morse
Adam Smith
crop rotation
rocket
22. What did Eli Whitney invent?
law of supply & demand
industrial revolution
the cotton gin
robert bakewell
23. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
Samuel Morse
the cotton gin
Mass Production
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
24. The idea that government should not interfere in business.
Laissez-faire
rocket
Mass Production
Ludwig van Beethoven
25. James hargreaves invented what?
Adam Smith
working class
the spinning jenny
William Wordsworth
26. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
robert bakewell
laissez faire
Assembly Line
Communism
27. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
the flying shuttle
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Dickens
Assembly Line
28. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
luddites
david richardo
laissez faire
Karl Marx
29. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Factory Workers
Wright Bros.
agriculteral revolution
industrial revolution
30. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
Karl Marx
thomas malthus
Assembly Line
Albert Einstein
31. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.
robert bakewell
Labor Union
Samuel Morse
the water frame
32. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
factors of production
middle class
the flying shuttle
Laissez-faire
33. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
the spinning jenny
Adam Smith
Industrial Revolution
Ludwig van Beethoven
34. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.
the water frame
Socialism
New Economic Theories
Karl Marx
35. What did Richard Arkwright invent?
New Economic Theories
Adam Smith
the water frame
Robert Fulton
36. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
rocket
factories
Adam Smith
working class
37. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
luddites
law of self-interest
the seed drill
Assembly Line
38. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Louis Pasteur
factories
Socialism
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
39. Invented the telephone
Karl Marx
New Economic Theories
Alexander Graham Bell
livestock breeding
40. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
the spinning jenny
livestock breeding
david richardo
Adam Smith
41. Identical Machine-made parts.
Interchangeable Parts
luddites
thomas malthus
Thomas Edison
42. 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.
Alexander Graham Bell
the flying shuttle
Communism
thomas malthus
43. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Andrew Carnegie
the seed drill
john mcadams
44. Wrote about poor in cities.
Charles Dickens
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
law of competition
Adam Smith
45. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
Samuel Morse
the water frame
thomas malthus
urbanization
46. A system in which the government controls the economy.
Communism
enclosures
factories
working class
47. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
luddites
the seed drill
john mcadams
working class
48. Luddites were also known as the...
working class
Interchangeable Parts
Albert Einstein
Inventions
49. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
Assembly Line
law of competition
Karl Marx
factories
50. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
the water frame
Karl Marx
clermont
Louis Pasteur