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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization






2. Developed and operated the modern steamship.






3. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on






4. Enough goods would be produced @ the lowest possible price to meet the demand in a market economy






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






6. Organizations representing workers' interests.






7. What were adam smith's 3 natural laws of economics?






8. What did jethro tull invent?






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






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






11. Organizations representing workers' interests.






12. Wrote about poor in cities.






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






14. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






15. James watt helped improve what?






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






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






18. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






19. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.






20. Laissez-faire - Socialism - Communism






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






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






23. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap






24. People can work for their own good






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






26. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods






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






28. Expressed love of nature in symphonies






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






30. What did David Richardo write?






31. Wrote about cruelties of war






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






33. Poet who wrote about nature






34. What did John Kay invent?






35. German thinker who put forth a radical view of socialism.






36. Invented the telephone






37. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.






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






39. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






40. 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.






41. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class






42. Dug a hole into the ground and injected seeds into soil - which helped produce more crops






43. James hargreaves invented what?






44. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?






45. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






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






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






48. Defended the idea of a free economy.






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






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