Before the Revolution
What were the three most common, deadly diseases that spread before the IR? (100 points for each one.)
Typhoid, cholera, and tuberculosis
Eli Whitney
Invented the cotton gin
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
Scottish blacksmith who invented the velocipede, the worlds first bicycle.
Which resource did Ireland lose that caused so many people to die or migrate?
Potatoes
Where was the first world's fair held?
London
What other revolution led to the industrial revolution?
The agricultural revolution
Samuel Colt
Improved the revolving pistol into what as the most widely used gun in the American West.
Horace Wells
Discovered pain killer
What new building metal was introduced during this time?
Iron
In 1800, Alessandro Volta created this device that is widely used today in every electronic device.
Battery
What percentage of people lived on farms or in villages before the IR?
More than 90%
John Wilkinson
He built with iron
John Snow
Discovered how diseases spread
This material was grown in the south and was very important for almost all textile mills in the north.
Cotton
Robert Fulton built the Clermont in 1807. What was the Clermont?
A steamboat
How did children spend most of their time before the IR?
Doing chores
Nicholas Appert
Discovered a way to preserve food
Edward Jenner
Discovered a way to prevent diseases
What did farmers learn during the agricultural revolution?
That rotating crops allowed for better yield
How fast were the early high speed trains?
They could go 15 to 25 mph.
How did families survive before the IR?
They built and fixed most things by themselves.
Samuel Slater
Credited with starting America's IR with a factory in Rhode Island
James Watt
For what reason did coal become the main fuel in England during the IR?
Trees were scarce.
Samuel F.B. Morse invented which form of communication that would later be the basis of the telephone?