WH Ch 19 Flashcards

1
Q

growing just enough food to meet personal needs

A

Subsistence Farming

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2
Q

the most critical factor for the advancement of a nation

A

Mastery of the food supply

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3
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a way of life based on the teaching that God expects man to work & work is a noble duty

A

Protestant Work Ethic

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4
Q

seed drill

A

Jethro Tull

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5
Q

steel plow

A

John Deere

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6
Q

the mechanical reaper

A

Cyrus McCormick

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7
Q

work was done in homes or small, private shops

A

Domestic System

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8
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a large number of people employed to produce manufactured goods in a systematic way for wages

A

Factory System

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9
Q

wages as compared to the cost of living

A

Real Wages

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10
Q

flying shuttle

A

John Kay

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11
Q

spinning frame

A

Richard Arkwright

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12
Q

spinning mule

A

Samuel Crompton

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13
Q

power loom

A

Edmund Cartwright

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14
Q

flying shuttle

A

John Klay

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15
Q

spinning Jenny

A

James Hargreaves

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16
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spinning frame

A

Richard Arkwright

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17
Q

spinning mule

A

Samuel Crompton

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18
Q

power loom

A

Edmund Cartwright

19
Q

enabled land holders to control the breeding of their live stock

A

Enclosure movement

20
Q

cotton gin

A

Eli Whitney

21
Q

practical, coal-burning steam engine

A

James Watt

22
Q

Miner’s safety lamp

A

Sir Humphry Davy

23
Q

process to convert iron to steel

A

Henry Bessemer and William Kelly

24
Q

first practical steamship

A

Robert Fulton

25
internal combustion engine
Gotlieb Daimler
26
diesel engine
Rudolph Diesel
27
perfected the first modern automobile in 1896
Henry Ford
28
electric telegraph
Samuel Morse
29
when was the telegraph invited
1844
30
first transatlantic cable
Cyrus Field
31
invented the 1st working telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
32
when was the first telephone made
1896
33
atomic theory
John Dalton
34
developed the 1st vaccine for the smallpox disease
Edward Jenner
35
when was the first vaccine made
1796
36
discovered the germ theory of disease in 1864
Louis Pasteur
37
developed antiseptics
Joseph lister
38
America's economic growth can be contributed to the what system
capitalism
39
founded and owned the largest steel company in the world in the late 1800's
Andrew Carnegie
40
founded and owned the largest oil company in the world in the last 1800's
John D. Rockefeller
41
known for progress in banking
J.P. Morgan
42
donating money to social causes to help the less fortunate
Philanthropy
43
wrote wealth of nations
Adam Smith