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Industrial Revolution

Subject : history
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1. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?






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






3. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.






4. Theory of relativity






5. Wrote about cruelties of war






6. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine






7. What did Eli Whitney invent?






8. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs






9. First Usable - practical light bulb.






10. 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.






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






12. James watt helped improve what?






13. People can work for their own good






14. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?






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






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






17. What did David Richardo write?






18. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases






19. Luddites were also known as the...






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






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






22. Defended the idea of a free economy.






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






24. Organizations representing workers' interests.






25. Resources consisting of land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurial skills combined to produce goods and services






26. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.






27. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.






28. Invented the light bulb and Morse code.






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






30. 1st successful powered airplane flight.






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






32. Identical Machine-made parts.






33. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.






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






35. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country






36. What did Richard Arkwright invent?






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






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






39. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?






40. A time period in which tools and equipment were modified and methods of soil preparation - fertilization - crop care - and harvesting were improved






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






42. Poet who wrote about nature






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






44. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently






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






46. The idea that government should not interfere in business.






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






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






49. Invented the telephone






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






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