Chapter 13 World Studies BJU

What invention efficiently places seeds in a row across a when you plow a plot of land

The seed drill

Who invented the seed drill?

Jethro Tull

What was a MACHINE that enabled a few men to separate the wheat from the husks and stalks quickly?

The threshing machine

Who invented the Threshing Machine

Andrew Meikle

What invention processed cotton more quickly?

The cotton gin

Who invented the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

What MACHINE enabled farmers to cut wheat much more quickly?

The reaping machine

Who invented the reaping machine?

Cyrus McCormick

What invention plowed fields and dug drain channels?

The steam tractor

Who invented the steam tractor?

John Fowler

Who improved the steam engine?

James Watt

What invention enabled workers to weave strands of cotton into cloth much more rapidly?

The flying shuttle

Who invented the flying shuttle?

John Kay

What machine could quickly SPIN many strands of cotton into thread?

The spinning jenney

Who invented the spinning jenny?

James Hargreaves

What was used to control the sales of inventions?

patents

Who invented the patent and was a successful British entrepreneur?

Richard Arkwright

planting different crops in the same field

Crop rotation

wool was spun to make clothes at home

Cottage industry

changes were made in manufacturing in the 18th and 19th century with the weaving machine

Industrial Revolution

What were large centrally located buildings that housed larger weaving machines?

Factories

What is a set of special rights that the government gives to a inventor for a period of time?

Patent

What is money provided from banks and wealthy inventors?

Capital

Some workers sought to improve their wages and working condition by forming \_________.

unions

What Act placed limits on child labor and required children to attend school for 3 hours a day?

1833 Factory Act

What Act barred women and boys under ten from working in the mines?

Mines Act

What restricted women and children to working a ten hour day?

Ten Hour Bill

Positive changes to \___________ society came primarily through spiritual conversion rather than through government rules or unions.

British

He was one of the greatest preachers in Britain; he organized his converts into Methodist societies.

John Wesley

He had had an international ministry; he preached to the outdoor masses.

George Whitefield

Whitefield played a key role in the \__________ \___________ in the American colonies. This spiritual movement brought many to salvation

started many churches

Enslaving Africans became a large part of the \__________.

Age of Exploration

What country was among the first to seek an end to slavery?

Britain

What was the first known religious group to combat slaverynicknamed "Society of Friends"?

Quakers

Who was a former slave captain?

John Newton

Who was a member of parliament? His greatest achievement was leading the effort to abolish slavery in the British empire.

William Wilberforce

American abolitionist; he was the editor of "The Liberator"; through his writing he influenced many to support abolition.

William Lloyd Garrison

He was a former slave; he was a persuasive spokesman for abolishing slavery.

Fredrick Douglass

What colony became one of the first French colonies to gain independence and to end French-imposed slavery?

Haiti

In the \_________ world

slavery is still practiced in some nations today.

increased slavery in the South in America because of lack of planters/harvesters

Cotton Gin

A group of British Quakers and Anglicans who united their efforts for the opposition of slavery

Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Former slave who helped around 300 slaves escape on the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s

Great Awakening