History test 8 Flashcards
the term for growing just enough food
subsistance farming
most critical factor of a nation
mastery of food supply
steel plow
John Deere
reaper
Cyrus Mcormick
allowed work to be done at home or private shops
Domestic System
Wages as compared to the cost of living
real wadges
large amount of people hired to work in factories
factory System
this nation began the industrial rev.
england
flying shuttle
John Kay
spinning mule
Samuel Crompton
allowed land owners to control the breeding of their animals
enclosure movement
steam engine
James Watt
cotton gin
Eli Whitney
miner’s safety lamp
Sir Humphrey Davy
steam powered locomotive
George Stephenson
steam ship
Robert Fulton
modern automobile
Ford
first transatlantic cable
Cyrus Field
electric telegraph
Samuel Morse
vaccine for small pox
Jenner
germ theory
Louis Pasteur
atomic theory
John Dalton
diesel engine
diesel
iron to steel process
Bessemer