Test 8 Flashcards
Test over Ch.19-21
What is growing just enough food to meet personal needs?
Subsistence farming
What is the most critical factor for any nation?
Mastery of the food supply
Who made the steel plow?
John Deer
Who made the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
What is work done in homes called?
Domestic system
What is a large number of people employed to produce manufactured goods?
Factory system
What are wages compared to the cost of living?
Real wages
Which country began the textiles industry?
England
Who made the flying shuttle
John Kay
Who made the spinning jenny?
James Hargreaves
Who made the spinning frame?
Richard Arkwright
Who made the spinning mule?
Samuel Crompton
Who made the power loom?
Edmund Cartwright
What movement allowed landholders to control breeding of their livestock?
Enclosure Movement
Who made the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Who made the practical coal burning engine? (steam)
James Watt
Who created the miners safety lamp?
Sir Humphry Davy
What two people created the process of turning iron to steel? (Named after one if the two people)
Henry Bessemer & William Kelly - Bessemer Process
What two canals allowed for easier commercial transportation?
Erie & Suez Canal
Who made the 1st practical steamship?
Robert Fulton
Who invented the 1st steam powered locomotive?
George Stephenson
Who made the internal combustion engine?
Gotlieb Diamler
Who created the diesel engine?
Rudolph Diesel
Who perfected the 1st modern car?
Henry Ford
Who invented the 1st electric telegraph machine? (Morse Code)
Samuel Morse
Who made the 1st transatlantic cable?
Cyrus Field
Who invented the 1st working telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who developed atomic theory?
John Dalton
Who developed the 1st vaccine for smallpox?
Edward Jenner
Who developed germ theory of disease?
Louis Pasteur
Who developed antiseptics to clean germs from wounds? (Listerine was named after him)
Joseph Lister
Who is considered the best inventor ever? (Also made the light bulb)
Thomas Edison
What can be attributed to America’s economic growth?
Capitalism
Who founded & owned the largest steel company in the world in the late 1800’s?
Andrew Carnegie
Who founded & owned the largest oil company in the late 1800’s?
John D. Rockefeller
Who was the man known for banking?
J.P. Morgan
What is donating money to social causes to help the less fortunate?
Philanthropy
Who wrote Wealth of Nations?
Adam Smith
When did Queen Victoria become queen of England?
18 yrs. old
What is one of the famous things that Queen Victoria said?
“I will be good.”
How long did Queen Victoria rule for?
64 years (longest ruling monarch in Eng. history)
What percent of the Earth’s surface belonged to England?
25%
Who was Queen Victoria’s husbands name?
Prince Albert
What was the right to vote for adult males in the late 1800’s?
Suffrage
What was the middle class of England called? Who represented this class?
Liberals. William Gladstone
What was the upper class of England? Who represented this class?
Conservatives. Benjamin Disraeli
Who was called the “prince of preachers”?
Charles Spurgeon
Who was the best-known preacher in America?
D.L. Moody
Which cricket player surrendered to missions?
C.T Studd
Who was a missionary to China in the 1800’s and founded the China Inland Mission?
J. Hudson Taylor
Who negotiated a treaty for trade between America and Japan?
Matthew Perry
Who was the 1st ambassador to Japan who helped bring missionaries?
Townshend Harris
Who was one of the 1st missionaries to the interior of Japan?
“Joseph Hardy” Neesima
Who was the 1st Baptist missionary to Japan? (Also invented the rickshaw)
Johnathan Goble
Who was the German missionary to Eng. that was known for building orphanages and for his strong prayer life?
George Muller
Who was the founder of the Salvation Army?
William Booth
What association offered food, shelter, and Gospel to inner-city working men?
YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association)
Which woman created the modern nursing profession for England during the Crimean War?
Florence Nightingale
What is the establishing of colonies in an empire to benefit the empire?
Imperialism
What were the reasons for expansion?
Gold (Economic growth), God (Religious outreach), & Glory (Patriotic pride)
Most of England growth came through _______ not war
Diplomacy
Who fought in the Crimean War?
England & Russia
What powerful trade company fought and gained control of India?
East India Company
Which rebellion started in the British Indian Army against British control?
Sepoy Rebellion
Which man translated the Bible into over 40 Indian languages and dialects?
William Carey
Who rescued young Indian girls from Pagan temples?
Amy Carmichael
Who was the first European to cross the Sahara desert?
Hugh Clapperton
Who was the most famous missionary to India?
David Livingstone
Which American explorer that was sent to find Livingstone?
Henry Stanley
Who was the 1st black bishop of the church of England?
Samuel Ajayi Crowther
What was the 1st independent African Republic?
Liberia
Who were the missionaries who helped the founding & settling of Liberia?
Lott Carey & Colin Teague
Who was one of Liberia’s most famous evangelists? (Started mission work at 60 yrs. old)
William Harris
