General
A significant change or turning point in history
What is a revolution?
This is where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Britain/England?
The most radical group during the French Revolution.
Who are the Jacobins?
The name of the period from 1793 to 1794 when thousands were executed.
What is the Reign of Terror?
He was nicknamed 'Turnip' as he found that planting crops in rotation could re-energize the soil's nutrients.
Who is Lord Townshed?
These are the two main kinds of factories that were built during the industrial revolution.
What are textile factories and coal factories?
The Third Estate made up this percent of the French population.
What is 98%?
The industry where products were made at home, before factories.
What is the Cottage Industry?
This is the meeting of representatives of the three estates.
What is Estates General?
Invented by Richard Arkwright, used rollers and water power to make stronger yarn even faster.
What is the Water Frame?
The amount of people that were estimated to have been guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
What is 37,000?
These are the poor working conditions children faced in the workforce (name 2).
What are harsh conditions, unsafe work, long hours, and no education?
This group of people were represented by the Sans-Culottes during in the revolution.
Who are the poor people from Paris?
This event marked the start of the revolution on July 14, 1789.
What was the Storming of the Bastille?
Transportation in the early Industrial Revolution experience its most important advance with the development of this.
What are steam powered locomotives/railways?
Main factors that contributed to the French Revolution (name 2).
What are economic challenges, social inequality, financial crisis, and Enlightenment ideas.
Working in these caused children's bodies to become deformed and their lungs to go "black"
What are the coal mines?
These were introduced to protect child laborers.
What are Factory Acts?
The National Assembly published this in August, 1789, which outlined basic human rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This invention allowed for one weaver to operate a large loom alone and use much wider fabrics.
What is the Flying Shuttle?
This is the reason that France was in a financial crisis before the revolution (name 2).
What is their involvement in the American Revolution, the 7 Years War, and the King & Queen's extravagant spending habits.
These are what the Factory Acts did in order to improve working conditions (name 2).
What are reduce work hours, improve safety, no children under 9, no more than 12 hours for child workers, and able to form unions?
This is the process of landowners merging the small strips of their lands into large fields.
What is enclosure?
This economic system allowed industry to boom as it assured minimal government regulation in business.
What is laissez faire?
He invented this in 1764, which allowed a number of threads to be spun off at the same time (inventor and invention)
Who is James Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny?