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Industrial Revolution
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1. What did Robert Fulton name the steamboat he built?
the spinning jenny
Interchangeable Parts
luddites
clermont
2. The style of capitalism in which the government did not interfere with the economy
clermont
laissez faire
Assembly Line
Socialism
3. Developed and operated the modern steamship.
Wright Bros.
Robert Fulton
thomas malthus
Socialism
4. British inventor who made steam engines faster and more efficient.
Samuel Morse
James Watt
principles of economy & taxation
david richardo
5. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Labor Union
Entrepreneur
Karl Marx
6. Made millions off the expansion of the American steel industry.
the water frame
clermont
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
7. Who came up with the idea of livestock breeding?
robert bakewell
Adam Smith
the spinning jenny
Albert Einstein
8. Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry.
Socialism
Labor Union
Labor Unions
Andrew Carnegie
9. Scottish engineer who made roads more efficient and easier to travel on
laissez faire
john mcadams
industrialization
Socialism
10. The growth of cities and the migration of people into them
Entrepreneur
Adam Smith
urbanization
Charles Darwin
11. James watt helped improve what?
the steam engine
the spinning jenny
James Watt
Adam Smith
12. The leading advocate of laissez-faire economics.
factors of production
Adam Smith
Andrew Carnegie
Wright Bros.
13. What did David Richardo write?
Factory Workers
Ludwig van Beethoven
working class
principles of economy & taxation
14. The theory that society - not individuals should own all property and industry.
Socialism
Andrew Carnegie
the cotton gin
the cotton gin
15. Large buildings that brought together workers and machines to produce large quantities of goods
New Economic Theories
Wright Bros.
factories
Communism
16. Luddites were also known as the...
Andrew Carnegie
working class
Inventions
principles of economy & taxation
17. The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items.
Wright Bros.
Andrew Carnegie
Mass Production
corporation
18. Machine that allowed workers to spin multiple strands of cotton at a time
the spinning jenny
thomas malthus
Assembly Line
Industrial Revolution
19. Theory of evolution
Entrepreneur
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
Charles Darwin
the water frame
20. 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.
crop rotation
livestock breeding
Labor Union
the flying shuttle
21. First Usable - practical light bulb.
agriculteral revolution
luddites
Thomas Edison
law of self-interest - law of competition - law of supply & demand
22. Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
corporation
middle class
Ludwig van Beethoven
23. Argued that population increased more rapidly that food supply - and therefore the number of people allowed to live should be limited
thomas malthus
law of supply & demand
laissez faire
the steam engine
24. Defended the idea of a free economy.
James Watt
Albert Einstein
Adam Smith
factors of production
25. Someone who starts a business.
Samuel Morse
david richardo
Entrepreneur
law of self-interest
26. Seed Drill - Cotton Gin - Spinning Frame
Assembly Line
Inventions
rocket
Andrew Carnegie
27. Organizations representing workers' interests.
Labor Unions
the spinning jenny
Samuel Morse
david richardo
28. What did George Stephenson name the engine he built with the help of his son?
the spinning jenny
Karl Marx
rocket
the cotton gin
29. People can work for their own good
law of self-interest
New Economic Theories
law of competition
Adam Smith
30. The shift - beginning in England during the 18th century - from making goods by hands to making those goods by machine
the flying shuttle
William Wordsworth
Robert Fulton
industrial revolution
31. Wrote about poor in cities.
Alexander Graham Bell
thomas malthus
Charles Dickens
Samuel Morse
32. The selective breeding of livestock. increased availability of meat - wool - leather - and soap
industrialization
livestock breeding
law of supply & demand
James Watt
33. What did John Kay invent?
the seed drill
enclosures
Charles Darwin
the flying shuttle
34. Theory of relativity
the seed drill
middle class
Robert Fulton
Albert Einstein
35. German thinker who had a radical view of socialism; Founder of modern communism.
rocket
the water frame
Karl Marx
david richardo
36. Studies germs - made vaccines and pasteurization
Louis Pasteur
the cotton gin
Communism
working class
37. Believed that lower class will always remain the lower class
the seed drill
john mcadams
Mass Production
david richardo
38. A system in which the government controls the economy.
the flying shuttle
Alexander Graham Bell
Industrial Revolution
Communism
39. Protests from the working class that led to the destroying of factory machines named by Ned
Socialism
Karl Marx
luddites
Factory Workers
40. A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country
Socialism
the cotton gin
Thomas Edison
Communism
41. Social class made up of skilled workers - professionals - businesspeople - & wealthy farmers.
working class
Ludwig van Beethoven
law of supply & demand
middle class
42. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Laissez-faire
Adam Smith
Andrew Carnegie
corporation
43. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.
Louis Pasteur
Factory Workers
the steam engine
livestock breeding
44. A system in which society - usually the government - owns and controls the means of production.
William Wordsworth
Communism
Socialism
Karl Marx
45. Business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts
clermont
the flying shuttle
Industrial Revolution
corporation
46. Believed wages would be forced down as the population increases
the spinning jenny
david richardo
crop rotation
agriculteral revolution
47. Fenced-in/hedged-in fields created by wealthy british landowners on land that was formerly worked by British farmers.
the seed drill
robert bakewell
enclosures
Mass Production
48. Machine that made the rigorous job of cotton picking get done faster & more efficiently
enclosures
James Watt
Adam Smith
the cotton gin
49. System in which workers stay in one place - adding parts as items go by.
Socialism
the water frame
Assembly Line
the spinning jenny
50. The development of industries for the machine production of goods
the flying shuttle
crop rotation
industrialization
Mass Production