Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 85

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Elizabeth Blackwell

• A)invented the telegraph
• B)invented the sewing machine
• C)with Boston Associates, formed the Boston Manufacturing Company
• D)earned a medical degree, a first of its kind
• E)was a piano maker and immigrant
• F)helped found schools to train teachers and promoted the idea of free public education
• G)was the first clipper ship
• H)improved the steel plow, thereby making it possible to farm the Great Plains
• I)was the first commercial steamboat, built by Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton
• J)was a Jewish tailor who made work pants during the gold rush and would become the origin story of a major brand
• K)was a famous composer whose song "Oh! Susanna" emerged as a national favorite

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Definitions:

Resource Demand

The desire and ability of a company or economy to acquire goods or services considered essential for operation.

Inherited Wealth

Wealth or assets passed down from one generation to another through inheritance, often influencing economic opportunities for individuals.

Marginal Productivity Theory

An economic theory suggesting that the addition of a unit of labor or capital within the production process will increase the output by the amount of the marginal product.

MP L

Marginal Product of Labor; the additional output resulting from employing one more unit of labor, holding other inputs constant.