Chapter 20 Flashcards
What is the invention that was key in the development of the industrial weaving revolution
Spinning jenny
What did the mines act of 1842
It Banned children below the age of ten to work in the mines
What Act Progressively limited the hours children could work from 1802 1833
The factory Act
Who were the Luddites
Working class English men who destroyed factory machines for fear of replacement.
Who was Edwin Chadwick
wrote report on the “Condition of the Laboring Population of Great Britain” in 1842
Who was George Stephenson
built the locomotives for the first modern railroad in Britain
What did the Great Exhibition of 1851 do
It Displayed the wealth of Britain
What was The Poor Law Act of 1834
workhouses where jobless poor people were forced to live as a result poverty
Why were the combination laws disliked
It outlawed labor unions
who is Henry Cort
made wrought iron until steel was a steal
