Ch 21 industrial revolution

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Across
  1. 4. work, or people who do the work
  2. 5. identical machine-made parts that can be substituted for each other in manufacturing
  3. 6. a risk taker who starts a new business within the economic system of capitalism
  4. 7. English economist and sociologist; his theory that population growth would exceed the growth of food production and that poverty would always exist was used to justify low wages and laws restricting charity to the poor.
  5. 8. British inventor; he invented the seed drill
  6. 9. the basic resources for industrialization, such as land, labor, and capital
  7. 11. a business system where companies are allowed to conduct business without interference by the government
  8. 13. English inventor; in 1769 he patented the spinning frame, which spun stronger, thinner, thread.
  9. 14. a usually small-scale industry carried on at home by family members using their own equipment
  10. 18. developing industries for the production of goods
Down
  1. 1. a political and economic system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns the means of production
  2. 2. a process in Europe from 1700s to the mid-1800s where landowners fenced small fields to create large farms
  3. 3. a work stoppage
  4. 5. a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700s
  5. 10. Scottish inventor; he developed crucial innovations to make the steam engine efficient, fast, and better able to power machinery.
  6. 12. Scottish economist; he became the leading advocate of laissez faire economics and is considered by some to be the “father of modern economics.” He wrote the first true text on economics, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776.
  7. 15. a mass-production process in which a product is moved forward through many work stations where workers perform specific tasks
  8. 16. the system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items
  9. 17. an organization representing workers' interests
  10. 19. American engineer and inventor; he built the first commercially successful, full-sized steamboat, the Clermont, which led to the development of commercial steamboat ferry services for goods and people.