WH Ch 19

Question 1

growing just enough food to meet personal needs

Answer 1

Subsistence Farming

Question 2

the most critical factor for the advancement of a nation

Answer 2

Mastery of the food supply

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Protestant Work Ethic

Question 4

seed drill

Answer 4

Jethro Tull

Question 5

steel plow

Answer 5

John Deere

Question 6

the mechanical reaper

Answer 6

Cyrus McCormick

Question 7

work was done in homes or small, private shops

Answer 7

Domestic System

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Factory System

Question 9

wages as compared to the cost of living

Answer 9

Real Wages

Question 10

flying shuttle

Answer 10

John Kay

Question 11

spinning frame

Answer 11

Richard Arkwright

Question 12

spinning mule

Answer 12

Samuel Crompton

Question 13

power loom

Answer 13

Edmund Cartwright

Question 14

flying shuttle

Answer 14

John Klay

Question 15

spinning Jenny

Answer 15

James Hargreaves

Question 16

spinning frame

Answer 16

Richard Arkwright

Question 17

spinning mule

Answer 17

Samuel Crompton

Question 18

power loom

Answer 18

Edmund Cartwright

Question 19

enabled land holders to control the breeding of their live stock

Answer 19

Enclosure movement

Question 20

cotton gin

Answer 20

Eli Whitney

Question 21

practical, coal-burning steam engine

Answer 21

James Watt

Question 22

Miner’s safety lamp

Answer 22

Sir Humphry Davy

Question 23

process to convert iron to steel

Answer 23

Henry Bessemer and William Kelly

Question 24

first practical steamship

Answer 24

Robert Fulton

Question 25

internal combustion engine

Answer 25

Gotlieb Daimler

Question 26

diesel engine

Answer 26

Rudolph Diesel

Question 27

perfected the first modern automobile in 1896

Answer 27

Henry Ford

Question 28

electric telegraph

Answer 28

Samuel Morse

Question 29

when was the telegraph invited

Answer 29

1844

Question 30

first transatlantic cable

Answer 30

Cyrus Field

Question 31

invented the 1st working telephone

Answer 31

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 32

when was the first telephone made

Answer 32

1896

Question 33

atomic theory

Answer 33

John Dalton

Question 34

developed the 1st vaccine for the smallpox disease

Answer 34

Edward Jenner

Question 35

when was the first vaccine made

Answer 35

1796

Question 36

discovered the germ theory of disease in 1864

Answer 36

Louis Pasteur

Question 37

developed antiseptics

Answer 37

Joseph lister

Question 38

America’s economic growth can be contributed to the what system

Answer 38

capitalism

Question 39

founded and owned the largest steel company in the world in the late 1800’s

Answer 39

Andrew Carnegie

Question 40

founded and owned the largest oil company in the world in the last 1800’s

Answer 40

John D. Rockefeller

Question 41

known for progress in banking

Answer 41

J.P. Morgan

Question 42

donating money to social causes to help the less fortunate

Answer 42

Philanthropy

Question 43

wrote wealth of nations

Answer 43

Adam Smith