Unit 3 people

Question 1

Lewis Hines and Jacob Riis

Answer 1

muckraking photo journalists that worked to expose the terrible conditions for the industrial revolution worker/family (child labor, tenement conditions)

Question 2

Jethro Tull

Answer 2

invented the Seed Drill that revolutionized planting by drilling a hole in soil, dropping seeds in, and covering the seeds.

Question 3

Townshend

Answer 3

invented the 4 Field System of Crop Rotation crop rotation that replenishes nitrogen in the soil and allowed ALL land to be used during growing season

Question 4

Robert Bakewell

Answer 4

used selective breeding to produce larger and healthier farm animals

Question 5

John Kay

Answer 5

invented flying shuttle; invention that made weaving cloth easier and faster and increased the demand for thread

Question 6

Richard Arkwright

Answer 6

invented the water frame: Spun thread faster and used water for power resulting in most early factories being located close to running water

Question 7

Edmund Cartwright

Answer 7

invented the power loom: a fully mechanized way to make cloth-first powered by water and later powered by steam. It led to an increase in demand for raw cotton

Question 8

Eli Whitney

Answer 8

inventor of the cotton gin and the first to use the system of interchangeable parts. Cotton gin cleaned cotton of its seed.

Question 9

George Stephenson

Answer 9

built the Rocket, an early locomotive that used a steam engine and could go 29 mph

Question 10

Louis Pasteur

Answer 10

proved the germ theory of illness- discovered the process of pasteurization

Question 11

Gregor Mendel

Answer 11

His groundbreaking work became the basis of Genetic Inheritance Law

Question 12

Marie Curie

Answer 12

she discovered the element Radium with her husband Pierre. She was the first to win two Nobel Prizes

Question 13

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Answer 13

he was among the first natural scientists to propose that species evolved in accordance to natural law. He was wrong in claiming that species evolve by inheriting characteristics but the theory of evolution developed in part due to his work

Question 14

Charles Darwin

Answer 14

he proposed a more comprehensive theory of evolution which informed the theory of evolution

Question 15

Adam Smith

Answer 15

he wrote the Wealth of Nations a book considered the first work of modern economics His work became the basis of Capitalism

Question 16

James Hargreaves

Answer 16

invented the Spinning Jenny: enabled spinners to produce yarn in greater quantities