Chapter 13 Vocab Flashcards

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Crop rotation

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Farming practice in which different crops are grown, and it feel to maintain the soils fertility

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Cottage industries

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Locations where wolf was spun and woven to make cloth providing income for the family

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Jethro Tull

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Developed a seed drill

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Seed drill

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Invention that efficiently places seeds in rows across a plot of land

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Andrew Meikle

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Developed a threshing machine

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Threshing machine

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Enables a few men to separate the wheat from the husks in stocks quickly

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Eli Whitney

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Invented the cotton gin

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Cotton gin

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Enables a few men to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds quickly

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Cyrus McCormick

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Invented horse drawn, reaping machine

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Reaping machine

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Enable farmers to cut wheat much more quickly

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John Fowler

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Developed one of the first first known self-propelled steam engines

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Steam tractor

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A self-propelled tractor that could plow fields and dig drainage, canals

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Industrial revolution

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Name for the 18th and 19th centuries due to the great changes in manufacturing

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Factories

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Large buildings that are centrally located for most efficient production of goods

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Steam engine

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Provided the necessary power to pull heavy loads in the form of tractors and locomotives

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James Watt

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Made important improvements in the design of the steam engine that increased efficiency

17
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John Kay

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Invented the flying shuttle

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James Hargreaves

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Invented the spinning, Jenny

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Spinning, Jenny

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Intervention that could rapidly spin spools of cotton thread into yarn

20
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Entrepreneurs

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Businessman who sell interventions, or start businesses for financial gain, and accept a risk of personal loss

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Richard Arkwright

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Became one of the most famous entrepreneurs got the government to protect several inventions with a patent

22
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Patent

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Set of government issued rights granted to an inventor to prevent others from copying and selling his invention for a certain amount of time

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Capital 

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Supplied by bankers are welding investors to entrepreneurs to help them get their business started

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1833 factory act

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Placed limits on child labor

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Mines act
Barred woman as well as boys under the age of 10 from working in the mines
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Ten hour bill
Restricted woman and children to working a 10 hour day in any British industry
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John Wesley
One of the greatest preachers in Britain during the 18th century;
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George Whitfield
18th century British preacher with an intern
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Great awakening
Spiritual movement that brought many to salvation, started many churches, and prepared the American colonies for independence
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John Newton
A former slave ship captain, who became a Christian in 1748, he wrote the hymn Amazing Grace. 
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William Wilberforce
Christian in the English Parliament who led the effort to abolish slavery in the British empire
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Committee for the abolition of this slave trade
A group of Quakers and angelic, who united their efforts for the opposition of slavery 
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William Lloyd Garrison
American abolitionist, editor of the newspaper, a liberator
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Fredrick Douglass
A former slave in America, persuasive spokesman for abolition