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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
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