Chapter 5

Question 0

Charles Townshed

Answer 0

Discovered that fields did not have to be left fallow if farmers would rotate the crops they planted in a field.
This is called crop rotation
His ideas helped revolutionize agriculture

Question 1

Agricultural Revolution

Answer 1

• key to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution because it greatly increased food amounts and variety
• farmers planted more items and developed new ways of using land and making it more productive

Question 2

Crop Rotation

Answer 2

Growing one type of crop for one or two years, then switching to a different crop for one or two years.
Made by Charles Townshed

Question 3

Jethro Tull

Answer 3

Found a method of planting seeds that was better than the random scattering.
He developed the seed still that planted seeds in straight rows

Question 4

Enclosure Movement

Answer 4

Fenced off of public lands by individual landowners in the 1700s.
Wealthy land owners farmed lager amounts more efficiently with this

Question 5

Domestic System

Answer 5

Entrepreneurs developed a system of manufacturing wool cloth.

Question 6

John Kay

Answer 6

A clockmaker who invented the flying shuttle, which replaced the hand-held shuttle used in weaving

Question 7

Richard Arkwright

Answer 7

Invented water frame.

Question 8

Samuel Crompton

Answer 8

Invented spinning mule, which combined arkwrights water frame and Hargreaves spinning Jenny

Question 9

Edward Cartwright

Answer 9

Built a loom in which the weaving action was powered by water.

Question 10

Thomas Newcomen

Answer 10

Developed a safer steam powered pump. But broke down frequently

Question 11

James Watt

Answer 11

Developed ways of improving newcomens engine. Got four times more power than Newcomens

Question 12

Abraham Darby

Answer 12

He developed a way to use coke (he made coke from coal) in place of charcoal to help iron production

Question 13

Henry Cort

Answer 13

Developed a puddling process in which molten iron was stirred with a long rod.
Also developed a technique to run molten iron in sheets for iron sheets

Question 14

Henry Bessemer

Answer 14

Developed a procedure that made the production of steel easier and cheaper.
He created the Bessemer process

Question 15

George Stephenson

Answer 15

A mining engineer who invented the rocket, the first steam powered locomotive

Question 16

The Rocket

Answer 16

The first steam-powered locomotive that could barrel along iron rails at 36 miles per hour.

Question 17

Samuel Morse

Answer 17

Devised the telegraph, which sent messages by electrical impulses.

Question 18

Who was restored to the throne of France by the Congress of Vienna after the French Revolution?

Answer 18

Louis XVIII

Question 19

Why did the middle class like Louis XVIII?

Answer 19

He gave them political power in his time of ruling.

Question 20

July Ordinances

Answer 20

Ended the power of the middle class put in place by Charles X

Question 21

Why did the industrial revolution start in England?

Answer 21

It had everything it needed to start an economic revolution.

Question 22

Who invented the cotton gin?

Answer 22

Eli Whitney

Question 23

Robert Fulton

Answer 23

Invented the Clermont which made transportation across water better

Question 24

James Hargreaves

Answer 24

Invented the Spinning Jenny and named it after his wife

Question 25

Who made British roads Eiropes best roads?

Answer 25

McAdam

Question 26

JS Mills

Answer 26

Believed reform was key to long term success | Beloved workers should be able to agitate for improved conditions

Question 27

Utopian Socialists

Answer 27

Describes people like Robert Owen who who planned an industrial community where the workers could enjoy a good standard of living and receive decent wage