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SS - Industrial Rev.
Question | Answer |
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The time in a country's history when it undergoes a rapid change from an agricultural to factory-base economy | Industrial Revolution |
Jobs frequently done by children during the industry boom in England and the U.S. | Spinning (clothing/textile) factories, coal mines, newspaper boys, farms |
4 inventions that totally changed the way clothing was made...(revolutionized the textile industry)? | Flying Shuttle, Spinning Jenny, Water Frame, Spinning Mule |
a person who manages or owns an industrial enterprise | industrialist |
was the inentor of the steamboat and the submarine | Robert Fulton |
Were two people who are known for developing the steam engine? | Thomas Newcomb and James Watt |
copied the designs of spinning machines in England, brought these to the United States, and started his own spinning mill. | Samuel Slater |
the cotton industry in the Southern United States was revolutionized by Eli Whitney's invention of the | Cotton Gin |
the person that is credited in building the first steam locomotive | George Stephenson |
These people were credited with developing the telegraph. | The Chappe Brothers (windmill like device) and Samuel Morse (electric) |
________________ _____________ demonstration of electromagnetism led the way for electric devices. | Micheal Faraday's |
The inventor of the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
4 Things Thomas Edison invented or had a part in inventing | Phonograph, Lightbulb, Hydroelectric Power Plant, and Motion Pictures |
The ________________ _________ put in place in Henry Ford's automobile factory changed the way factories produces goods. | assembly line |
All states had public education by ____________. | 1918 |
The first European city to have electric street lights. | Timisoara, Romania |
Then inventor of the ¨Kodak¨ box camera | George Eastman |
an economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution, such as land, factories, railroads, etc. are privately owned and operrated for a profit | capitalism |
the system of home-centered hand manufacturing that preceded the Industrial Revolution | cottage industry |
the first machine to replace the spinning wheel | spinning jenny |
a group of people living in a new or overseas territory who retain certain government ties with the native (parent) country | colony |
a type of spinning machine that was capable of performing the work of 3000 hand spinners | spinning mule |
Invented the spinning jenny | James Hargreaves |
Invented the spinning mule | Samuel Crompton |
Invented the Water Frame | Richard Arkwright |
The country listed as having the highest risk for child labor | Myanmar |