Chapter 13 World Studies BJU

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

The seed drill

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Who invented the seed drill?

Jethro Tull

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

The threshing machine

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Who invented the Threshing Machine

Andrew Meikle

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What invention processed cotton more quickly?

The cotton gin

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Who invented the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

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What MACHINE enabled farmers to cut wheat much more quickly?

The reaping machine

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Who invented the reaping machine?

Cyrus McCormick

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What invention plowed fields and dug drain channels?

The steam tractor

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Who invented the steam tractor?

John Fowler

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Who improved the steam engine?

James Watt

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

The flying shuttle

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Who invented the flying shuttle?

John Kay

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

The spinning jenney

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Who invented the spinning jenny?

James Hargreaves

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What was used to control the sales of inventions?

patents

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Who invented the patent and was a successful British entrepreneur?

Richard Arkwright

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planting different crops in the same field

Crop rotation

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wool was spun to make clothes at home

Cottage industry

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

Industrial Revolution

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

Factories

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

Patent

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What is money provided from banks and wealthy inventors?

Capital

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

unions

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

1833 Factory Act

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

Mines Act

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

Ten Hour Bill

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

British

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

John Wesley

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

George Whitefield

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

started many churches

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Enslaving Africans became a large part of the __________.

Age of Exploration

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

Britain

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

Quakers

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Who was a former slave captain?

John Newton

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

William Wilberforce

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

William Lloyd Garrison

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

Fredrick Douglass

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

Haiti

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In the _________ world

slavery is still practiced in some nations today.

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

Cotton Gin

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

Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade

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

Harriet Tubman

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

Great Awakening

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