50/50
Workers' unions developed during the Industrial Revolution.
True
Give the term for men who developed businesses and sold their inventions.
entrepreneurs
Developed a threshing machine
Meikle
What centrally-located buildings became necessary for housing large weaving machines?
factories
Who was involved in the slave trade as a slave-ship captain before he was saved?
John Newton
Gasoline engines provided reliable power for the Industrial Revolution
False
Give the term for money that bankers and investors provided for entrepreneurs.
capital
Invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
The 1833 Factory Act placed limits on
child labor
This religious group fought against the slave trade
The Quakers
The Great Awakening occurred during the American War for Independence
False
What did inventors get to protect their inventions?
patents
Invented the spinning jenny
Hargreaves
Give the term for the practice of growing different crops in the same field from year to year.
crop rotation
Which American edited an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator?
William Garrison
Some landowners enclosed their land to increase productivity
True
What term describes the practice of making cloth at home ?
cottage industry
Invented the reaping machine
McCormick
What is the name of the era during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that characterized by immense manufacturing changes?
The Industrial Revolution
What Methodist preacher traveled throughout Britain on horseback?
John Wesley
Britain was the first country to experience the Industrial Revolution
True
What country was the 1st to experience the Industrial Revolution
Britain
Invented the flying shuttloe
Kay
Name the legislation that set limits on the number of hours women and children could work in any British industry.
Ten Hour Bill
Which American Abolitionists was once a slave in Maryland ?
Frederick Douglass