Industrial Revolution and Movement of People

Question 1

Who invented the Rotherham plough in what year?

Answer 1

Joseph Faljambe in 1730

Question 2

Who invented the horse powered threshing machine in what year?

Answer 2

Andrew Miekle in 1784

Question 3

Who invented the old steam engine in what year?

Answer 3

Thomas Newcomen in 1712

Question 4

What did the old steam engine do?

Answer 4

Drove a piston that powered a horizontal bar

Question 5

Who invented the new steam engine and when?

Answer 5

James Watt in 1769 with the help of Michael Bolton

Question 6

Major changes brought about by the industrial revolution

Answer 6

Medical advancements (longer lifespans), higher population, fresher crops, more crops due to better farming methods, movement from farm to cities, using children in the workforce and most importantly, the use of more machines, especially James Watt’s iteration of the steam engine.

Question 7

How did Newcomen’s steam engine contribute to the industrial revolution?

Answer 7

Newcomen’s steam engine was capable of removing excess water from coal mines, which resulted in deeper coal mines and thus more coal to be obtained. This helped the coal mining industry take off.

Question 8

How did Watt’s steam engine contribute to the the industrial revolution?

Answer 8

Watt’s steam engine had more continuous power making it more adaptable to be in more machines. It also got introduced the railway.

Question 9

Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Answer 9

Great Britain

Question 10

Difference between 3 field crop rotation system and 4 field crop rotation system.

Answer 10

The 3 field system had a cycle of wheat, barley and fallow/nothing (growing nutrients). The four field system had wheat, barely, turnips for feeding livestock instead of killing them and clovers for animals to graze upon with their manure helping the fertilisation.

Question 11

Why was there a population explosion?

Answer 11

Eradication if the plague (black rats replaced by brown ones), child labour (families were encouraged to have more children so more could work), advancement of medicine and a surplus of crops due to new and better techniques, systems and machines.

Question 12

Why was Great Britain the major trading nation?

Answer 12

They had colonies (raw materials), they surplus of items led them into a profitable cycle and their use of steam engines led to the production of new materials.

Question 13

What were some punishments for crimes in Britain during the 18th century?

Answer 13

Hanging and amputation.

Question 14

What is a hulk?

Answer 14

An old decommissioned naval ship that was turned into a floating jail on the sea so there would be more space on the mainland (where prisons were overcrowded.

Question 15

What was the Latin term given to Australia when a the British first claimed it?

Answer 15

‘Terra nullius’, meaning unused or unoccupied land that was free to take. This was wrong since the indigenous owned the land but they were ignored.

Question 16

What happened at the Myall Creek massacre?

Answer 16

Marked the first and almost last time that whites were punished by white law after killing Aborigines. This was due to there evidence from a farmer witness.

Question 17

Who was Pemulwuy?

Answer 17

An Aboriginal warrior who survived after being shot 7 times. He escaped capture several times, apparently turned into a bird and led guerrilla operations.

Question 18

What were push factors to migrate to Australia

Answer 18

Unemployment, overcrowded cities, food shortage, high crime rates, bad conditions, rising rents and the outbreak of wars and revolts.

Question 19

What were pull factors to migrate to Austalia?

Answer 19

More land, less crime, fertile land, less crowded cities, better economy, better quality of life, the Gold Rush as well as family ties.

Question 20

What happened to the Indigenous population in Tasmania in 1803?

Answer 20

Hobart was established and it brought along the killing of many Indigenous people.

Question 21

When and where Aborigines transported to?

Answer 21

Flinders Island from 1821-1840.

Question 22

What war took place during the Indigenous’ transportation?

Answer 22

The Black War, 1824-1831

Question 23

What did a Methodist preacher do?

Answer 23

Convinced many of the Indigenous to move to Flinders a island from 1829-1834

Question 24

How many Aborigines were left in 1832 on the mainland of Tasmania.

Answer 24

203

Question 25

How many Aborigines were on the maintain of Tasmania in 1847?

Answer 25

47

Question 26

Who was the last Indigenous person on the mainland of Tasmania?

Answer 26

Truganini, who became the last in 1869. They then died in 1872.

Question 27

Who invented the seed drill in what year?

Answer 27

Jethro Tull 1700