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Industrial Revolution
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1. What did David Richardo write?

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

3. James watt helped improve what?

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. What did jethro tull invent?

9. Theory of evolution

10. Government should not interfere in commercial affairs

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

12. What did John Kay invent?

13. Wrote about cruelties of war

14. Luddites were also known as the...

15. Developed and operated the modern steamship.

16. Moved to cities from the countryside. Worked long hours with poor conditions. Organized unions and strikes.

17. Poet who wrote about nature

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

19. Theory of relativity

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

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

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

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

24. What did Richard Arkwright invent?

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