Industrial Rev Flashcards
What were the swing riots?
Widespread uprising by agricultural workers who destroyed over 100 threshing machines
What was a threshing machine?
A machine which sowed seeds more quickly and efficiently than by hand
What is subsistence farming?
Farming for people’s own use, sometimes getting a small profit from surplus
What is urbanisation?
The movement from rural areas to larger cities
Who was turnip Townshend?
He made turnips famous and introduced the four field crop rotation
In 1750, what percent of workers were children?
14%
What was flossy lungs?
When children’s lungs filled up with cotton as a result from working in the factories and get cotton fibres in their lungs
Around how much would children working get paid a day?
Around 4 pence
What were ‘door keepers?’
Children who walked in front of mine carts to open the doors for the people pushing the minecarts
What were some of the health effects of working in the mines?
Back problems, coal in lungs
What was a steam engine?
A source of power using water. It was first used to drain water out of mines
Who invented the steam engine and when?
Thomas Newcomen around 1712
What was the spinning Jenny?
A machine that allowed workers to spin many threads at a time, making more finished cotton.
Who was John Bennett Lawes?
He invented fertiliser
