terms & names of industrial revolution

Question 1

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 1

telephone//improved communication

Question 2

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 2

Carnegie Steel Company//controlled steel production

Question 3

Cyrus McCormick

Answer 3

reaper//increased wheat production

Question 4

Eli Whitney

Answer 4

cotton gin//multiplied cotton production and cleaning

Question 5

Elizabeth Gaskell

Answer 5

wrote Mary Borton/novelist//showed problems in city for sympathy

Question 6

Francis Lowell

Answer 6

made machines for every part of textile production//increase of cloth production

Question 7

I.M. Singer

Answer 7

improved sewing machine//faster production in textile industry

Question 8

James Hargreaves

Answer 8

spinning jenny//faster weaving and increased thread storage

Question 9

James Watt

Answer 9

steam engine//more efficient work

Question 10

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 10

founded standard oil//created jobs and economics

Question 11

John Kay

Answer 11

shuttle on wheels to weave//increased production in textile industry

Question 12

Matthew Boulton

Answer 12

entrepreneur who helped Watt//efficient work

Question 13

Moses Brown

Answer 13

first factory in America//work done faster

Question 14

Robert Fulton

Answer 14

used steam engine to make steamboat//increased trade

Question 15

Samuel Crompton

Answer 15

spinning mule//stronger thread

Question 16

Samuel F.B. Morse

Answer 16

telegraph//faster long distance communication

Question 17

Samuel Slater

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spinning machine in America//beginning of US industrialism

Question 18

William Cockeril

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spinning machine in belgium//spread of industrialization

Question 19

Adam Smith

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wrote the wealth of nations and defended free markets

Question 20

socialism

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economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operated for the welfare of all

Question 21

Karl Marx

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German journalist who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels

Question 22

communism

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for of complete socialism in which means of production would be owned by the people and private property would cease to exist

Question 23

unions

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voluntary associations of workers who pressed for reforms

Question 24

Wilberforce

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led the fight for abolition in british parliament

Question 25

Jane Addams

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established a settlement house in Chicago for the aid of women

Question 26

Luddites

Answer 26

group of unemployed cottage workers attacked the machine that put them out of business