chapter 9 NAMES OF IMPORTANT PEOPLE

Question 1

John Kay

Answer 1

made first back and forth shuttle

Question 2

James hargreaues

Answer 2

spinning jenny (8 threads at a time)

Question 3

Richard Arkwright

Answer 3

water frame

Question 4

Samuel Crompton

Answer 4

spinning mule

Question 5

Edmund Cartwright

Answer 5

power loom

Question 6

Eli Whitney

Answer 6

american, made first machine to pick seeds off the raw cotton

Question 7

James Watt

Answer 7

made improvements to the steam engine

Question 8

Mathew Boulton

Answer 8

James Watt’s business manger/ partner

Question 9

Robert Fulton

Answer 9

built a boat using steam engine, called the clermont

Question 10

John McAdams

Answer 10

made improvements to the british roads

Question 11

Richard Trevithick

Answer 11

made first ever locomotives, through winning a bet

Question 12

George Stephenson

Answer 12

worked on first railroad line

Question 13

Luddites

Answer 13

laborers who destroyed factory machinery

Question 14

Samuel Slater

Answer 14

Escaped from Britain to the U.S and made a spinning machine from memory

Question 15

Moses Brown

Answer 15

opened the 1st factory in the US

Question 16

Francis Cabot Lowell

Answer 16

revolutionized textile industry in U.S with 4 other investors, has a town named after him Lowell, Massachusetts

Question 17

William Cockerill

Answer 17

escaped to Belgium and built a spinning machine, his son created an industry that sold all types of machinery

Question 18

David Ricardo

Answer 18

Laissez-faire philopher, wrote a book called principles of political, economy and taxation

Question 19

thomas Maithus

Answer 19

Laissez-faire philospher wrote an essay called principle of population