Industrial Revolutionary Figures

Question 1

John Kay’s invention

Answer 1

Flying shuttle

Question 2

Flying shuttle

Answer 2

Sped up weaving process -> More demand for cotton thread

Question 3

James Watt’s invention

Answer 3

General purpose steam engine

Question 4

Samuel Crompton’s invention

Answer 4

Spinning mule

Question 5

Spinning mule

Answer 5

Main device for spinning cotton

Question 6

Edmund Cartwright’s invention

Answer 6

Power loom

Question 7

Power loom

Answer 7

Water-driven; Improved weaving process

Question 8

Eli Whitney

Answer 8

Introduced interchangeable parts to manufacturing process (firearm); Cotton gin

Question 9

George Stephenson

Answer 9

Father of Railways

Question 10

George Stephenson’s invention

Answer 10

Steam-powered locomotive

Question 11

Henry Ford

Answer 11

Creation of assembly line for manufacture of automobiles

Question 12

Utopian socialists

Answer 12

Fourier + Owens

Question 13

Charles Fourier

Answer 13

Wanted an equal society; Hated competition of the market; Wanted communities held together by love rather than coercion

Question 14

Robert Owens

Answer 14

Transformed New Lanark into model industrial community; Education for children

Question 15

Socialists’ view toward utopian socialists

Answer 15

Hated utopian socialists because their ideal societies cannot help

Question 16

Marx and Engels

Answer 16

Social problems due to capitalism; Believed capitalism divided people into 2 main classes + police worked with capitalists; Everything served the capitalists

Question 17

Communist Manifesto

Answer 17

Abolish private property + egalitarian society; Human history = struggle between classes

Question 18

Elizabeth Bentley

Answer 18

Factory worker; Children’s rights in factories

Question 19

Samuel Smiles

Answer 19

Middle-class / bourgeoisie; Believes poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government; If work hard → Make more money