chapter 22 industrial revolution KEY TERMS

Question 1

inventor of steam engine

Answer 1

Thomas Newcomen in 1705 and Thomas Savery in 1698

Question 2

made puddling furnace

Answer 2

Henry Cort; it allowed pig iron to be refined in turn with coke

Question 3

what/who built the Rocket

Answer 3

George Stephenson in 1830 sped down the track in Liverpool and Manchester

Question 4

significance of railroad

Answer 4

dramatically reduced the cost and uncertainty of shipping freight overland

Question 5

David Ricardo and Malthus

Answer 5

around 1812 concluded that workers would earn only enough to stay alive

Question 6

Luddites

Answer 6

handicraft workers attacked whole factories in northern England in 1812

Question 7

Factory Act 1833

Answer 7

limited factory workday for 9-13 year olds at 8 hours, children under 9 had to go to school

Question 8

Mines Act 1842

Answer 8

prohibited underground work for all women and boys under 10

Question 9

Robert Owen established

Answer 9

Largest and most visionary of the early national unions in 1834; Grand National Consolidated Trade Union