Social Studies Terminology
Across
- 6. A political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterized by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
- 10. An 18th-century Scottish economist, philosopher, and author.
- 11. An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
- 12. An early multiple-spindle machine for spinning wool or cotton.
- 13. An act or instance of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- 14. A theory that explains the interaction between the sellers of a resource and the buyers for that resource.
- 17. The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing.
Down
- 1. A system of manufacturing based upon work done at home on materials supplied by merchant employers.
- 2. An economic system driven by supply and demand.
- 3. The fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labor and property.
- 4. A scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on thomas newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine.
- 5. A german philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.
- 6. An engine driven or worked by steam.
- 7. Advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
- 8. The process through which cities grow, and higher and higher percentages of the population come to live in the city.
- 9. French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization.
- 15. The manufacturing of large quantities of standardized products, often using assembly lines or automation technology.
- 16. a policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society.