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Agricultural/ Industrial Revolution (Pages 269-275)
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02/10/2017

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Age of Industry
Definition
What the Industrial Revolution is called in Europe and America
Lasted from 1760-1900
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subsistence farming
Definition
growing just enough food to feed your family
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Mastery of the food supply
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the most critical material factor in determining how far a nation may advance
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Protestant work ethic
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the way of life based on the biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and that all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God
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Fallow ground
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Plowed, but unused ground
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Jethro Tull
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Invented the seed drill
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John Deere
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Patented the steel plow
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Cyrus McCormick
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Introduced his reaper to the American farmers
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Combine
Definition
The reaper and thresher combined into one machine
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The country which stood to spark an industrial revolution
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England
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domestic system
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work was done in small private shops
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factory system
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ever-increasing numbers of people were employed to produce manufactured goods in a systematic way for wages
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real wages
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wages as compared to the cost of living
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The Industrial Revolution began in...
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England's textile factories
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John Kay
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Invented the flying shuttle which allowed one person to weave bolts of cloth instead of two
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James Hargreaves
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Invented the spinning jenny, which automatically spun fiber into thread
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Richard Arkwright
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Invented the water-powered spinning frame on which cotton alone could be spun into thread
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Samuel Crompton
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Combined the spinning jenny and spinning jenny into the spinning mule
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Edmund Cartwright
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Patented a power loom to replace hand weaving
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Enclosure Movement
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Forced many peasants and farmers off land, but enabled landholders to control breeding and quality of livestock
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Eli Whitney
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Introduced the cotton gin and revolutionized agriculture
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James Watt
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A Scotsman who developed a practical, coal-burning steam engine
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Sir Humphrey Davy
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An English chemist who invented the miner's safety lamp
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Henry Bessemer
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An Englishman who discovered the Bessemer process, an inexpensive way of converting iron into steel by using currents of air
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William Kelly
Definition
Discovered the same process as Bessemer despite working independently from him
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