Industrail Revolution Flashcards
In the late 1700s where would you find a spinning Jenny and flying shuttle?
Weaving
Describe 3 ways industrialization impacted the world.
H
For what type of industry did Francis Cabot Lowell create a town in Massachusetts?
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Who was the first country to adopt the industrial technology of Britain?
Belgium
Who developed the germ theory of disease?
Louis Pasteur
What is the theory that business, if free of government regulation, will act in ways that benefit the nation?
F
Who founded the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?
Adam Smith
What is woman suffrage?
Right to vote
Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
Who first brought English textile machinery designs to the United States?
Samuel Slater
Who used antiseptics to clean wounds?
Joseph Lister
Who developed the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
Who helped to develop the science of genetics?
Gregor Mendal
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
