19-21 Flashcards
a time of dramatic changes in agriculture, industry, and technology
the Industrial Revolution (Age of Industry)
growing just enough food to feed your own family
subsistence farming
The way of life based upon the biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and that all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God
Protestant work ethic
invented the seed drill
Jethro Tull
steel plow
John Deere
reaper inventor
Cyrus McCormick
led the Industrial Revolution
England
work done in small private shops
domestic system
ever-increasing numbers of people produce manufactured goods in a systematic way to earn wages
factory system
wages compared to the cost of living
real wages
invented the flying shuttle (1)
John Kay
spinning jenny (2)
James Hargreaves
spinning frame (3)
Richard Arkwright
spinning mule (4)
Samuel Crompton
power loom (5)
Edmund Cartwright
landowners created places to raise sheep to fuel the booming textile industry
The Enclosure Movement
cotton gin
Eli Whitney
coal-burning steam engine
James Watt
invented the miner’s safety lamp
Sir Humphry Davy
man who developed an inexpensive process of turning iron to steel
Henry Bessemer
first practical steamship
Robert Fulton with his boat, the Clermont
first practical steam-powered locomotive
George Stephenson
first modern automobiles
Karl Benz/Henry Ford
electric telegraph
Samuel Morse