History Test Term 3

Question 1

Cottage Industry means…

Answer 1

A business or manufacturing activity carried on in peoples homes.

Question 2

Industrialisation means…

Answer 2

Process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agriculture to one based on the manufacturing of goods. Manual labour is replaced with mechanised mass production .

Question 3

Entrepreneurs means…

Answer 3

A person who sets up a business and takes on all the financial risks.

Question 4

Division Of Labour means…

Answer 4

The assignment of different parts or jobs of a manufacturing process.

Question 5

Mass Production means…

Answer 5

Name given to the method of producing goods in large amounts.

Question 6

Lasseiz-faire means…

Answer 6

The policy of leaving things to take their own course.

Question 7

Village common means…

Answer 7

A tract of land usually located in a centrally located spot used by a community.

Question 8

John Kay

Answer 8

Flying shuttle

Question 9

Henry Bessemer

Answer 9

Steel

Question 10

Abraham Darby

Answer 10

Pig iron

Question 11

Marie Curie

Answer 11

Chemical Elements (radium and polonium)

Question 12

Louis Pasteur

Answer 12

Mirror Image

Question 13

Edmund CartWright

Answer 13

Power loom

Question 14

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell

Answer 14

Battery

Question 15

Joseph Lister

Answer 15

Antiseptic surgery

Question 16

Richard Arkwright

Answer 16

Spinning Jenny

Question 17

George Stephenson

Answer 17

Railways

Question 18

James Hargreaves

Answer 18

Spinning Frame

Question 19

John Brindley

Answer 19

Canal builder

Question 20

Thomas Newcomen

Answer 20

Steam engine

Question 21

Isambard Brunel

Answer 21

Brunels bridges

Question 22

Henry Cort

Answer 22

Iron industry

Question 23

James Watt

Answer 23

Improvements on steam engine

Question 24

Josiah Wedgewood

Answer 24

Pyrometer

Question 25

Samuel Crompton

Answer 25

The spinning mule