A period in time which gradually grew over several decades.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
This device sped up the production of the weavers.
What is the flying shuttle?
100
Due to poor planning, new cities became heavily polluted because they lacked these amenities.
What are sewers, paved streets, and a safe water supply?
100
More food needed to be produced by a smaller percentage of the population.
What was the dilemma faced as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
100
The fuel of the Industrial Revolution used to power steam engines and heat homes.
What is coal?
200
Due to limited development of farming methods, most people lived here to produce food for the population.
What is the country?
200
This device allowed one person to spin eight threads at once.
What is the jenny?
200
These people are described as hard-working, aggressive men, able to turn small investments into fortunes, and ruthless in their pursuit of profits.
Who are the mill owners?
200
These people gained control of more of the land and were instrumental in bringing modern farming practices into use.
Who were the large landowners?
200
Factories built near these sites.
What are coal fields?
300
Farming did not provide year-round employment, so thousands of families worked for clothing merchants in their homes.
What is the cottage industry?
300
This machine was powered by water and improved the upon the jenny.
What is the water frame?
300
These people lived in the worst areas of the city and struggled to make enough money to survive.
Who are the workers?
300
The planting of new crops (turnips & potatoes), new breeds of cattle and sheep were developed, use of animal manure to fertilize fields, and crop rotation.
What are the factors contributing to the increase of farm production?
300
Cave-ins, flooding, explosions, and black lung disease.
What are the dangers of coal mining?
400
This task was difficult and tedious, but it provided a valuable income for many families.
What is weaving cloth?
400
The perfection of this invention provided the power to run the factories.
What is the steam engine?
400
England's trade increased substantially due to the export of textiles to these countries.
What is China, India, and Africa?
400
Mechanical seed drills, iron and steel plows, reapers, and tractors.
What were the new inventions?
400
Created to improve safety regulations as a result of a string of mine accidents.
What is the Bureau of Mines?
500
Merchants paid very little for the cloth produced, but the inconsistent levels of production was a concern.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the cottage industry?
500
This item was considered obsolete with the invention of the steam engine.
What is the waterwheel?
500
English farmers could not grow this commodity, so three-fourths of this item was imported from the United States.
What is cotton?
500
This required large amounts of labor and was raised on the large slave plantations of the southern states.
What is cotton?
500
Used at the surface of the mine to sort the coal rocks by size.