HI 102 Test

Question 1

Protestant work ethics

Answer 1

Work is noble

Question 2

Agriculturalist who developed the four field crop rotation system

Answer 2

Charles turnip townshend

Question 3

English inventor advocated the use of horses instead of oxen.
Developed the seed drill and selective breeding.
Musician and farmer

Answer 3

Jethro Tull

Question 4

American blacksmith that was responsible for inventing the steel plow. This new plow was much stronger than the old iron version;
therefore, it made plowing farmland in the west easier, making expansion faster.

Answer 4

John Deere

Question 5

easily cut through the hard packed sod of the prairies.
plow that tipped the prairies

Answer 5

Steel-tipped plow

Question 6

Irish-American inventor that
developed the mechanical reaper.
The reaper replaced scythes as the preferred method of cutting crops for harvest, and it was much more efficient and much quicker.
The invention helped the agricultural growth of America.

Answer 6

Cyrus McCormick

Question 7

Machine invented by Cyrus
McCormick that could harvest wheat quickly

Answer 7

Mechanical reaper

Question 8

resulted in more efficient agriculture practices, producing higher crops

Answer 8

Mechanical reaper

Question 9

what happens to the number of farmers?

Answer 9

Decreases

Question 10

A device used to make thread by spinning fibers together through the use of a big wheel.
bridge the gap between manual methods and industrial methods

Answer 10

Spinning wheel

Question 11

The 18th century privatization of common lands in England, which contributed to the increase in
population and the rise of industrialization.

Answer 11

Enclosure movement

Question 12

A method of production that brought many workers and machines together into one building

This new system gradually replaced localized cottage industry. Workers were paid by the hour instead of for what they produce. On one hand it decreased the need for skilled labor, but in other ways it increased the amount of specialization due to labor being concentrated in factories.

Answer 12

Factory system

Question 13

Textile industry that would be the first to modernize

Answer 13

Cotton

Question 14

Invented the flying shuttle

Answer 14

John Kay

Question 15

was developed by John Kay, its invention was one of the key developments in weaving that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution, enabled the weaver of a loom to throw the shuttle back and forth between the threads with one hand
Improves the wheating process

Answer 15

Flying shuttle

Question 16

invented the spinning jenny

Answer 16

James Hargreaves

Question 17

A machine that could spin several threads at once
Enabled the mass production of yarn

Answer 17

Spinning Jenny

Question 18

English inventor and entrepreneur who became the wealthiest and most successful textile
manufacturer of the first Industrial Revolution. He invented the water frame, a machine that, with minimal human supervision, could spin several threads at once.
Water powered spinning frame

Answer 18

Richard Arkwright

Question 19

invented the spinning mule

Answer 19

Samuel crompton

Question 20

In 1779, Samuel Crompton combined the spinning jenny and the water frame to create a machine which produced a thread which was stronger, finer and more consistent

Answer 20

Spinning mule

Question 21

Revolutionized planting by drilling a hole in soil, dropping seeds in, and covering the seeds. First agriculture machine with moving parts

Answer 21

Jethro tulls seed drill

Question 22

resulted in more efficient
agriculture practices, producing higher crops

Answer 22

Technological invention

Question 23

Invented the power loom

Answer 23

Edmund Cartwright

Question 24

a loom operated mechanically, run by water putting the loom side by side with the spinning machines in factories, changed workers job from running it to watching it, Invented in 1787, invented by Edward Cartwright, it speeded up the production of textiles

Answer 24

Power loom

Question 25

Invented the cotton gin

Answer 25

Eli Whitney

Question 26

A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793

Answer 26

Cotton gin

Question 27

a simple bladeless radial steam turbine which spins when the central water container is heated

Answer 27

Aeolipile

Question 28

1705 invented steam engine that used coal, very inefficient.
developed a steam engine powered by coal to pump water out of mines
first practical steam engine

Answer 28

Thomas Newcomen

Question 29

Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819).

Answer 29

James watt

Question 30

Improved steam engine

Answer 30

Practical steam engine

Question 31

Invented a way in which iron could be transformed into steel in the 1850’s.
Bessemer Process

Answer 31

Henry Bessemer and William Kelly

Question 32

Invented the miners safety lamp

Answer 32

Sir Humphry Davy

Question 33

The most important invention for the safety coal miners

Answer 33

Miners safety lamp