Agricultural
Advancements
Advancements
In 1827, this well known American patented his famous steel plow.
Who was John Deere?
Invented the cotton gin that made the process of removing of the seed from the cotton fibers less tedious and painful.
Who was Eli Whitney?
This Scotsman developed the first coal-burning steam engine.
Who was James Watt?
Because of his interest in the deaf community, this man patented his first telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
The economic system in which individuals are allowed the freedom to follow their economic pursuits as they see fit.
What is Capitalism?
Cyrus McCormick introduced this is the American farmers, enabling them to harvest six times more land than they could harvest by hand.
What was the reaper?
John Kay invented this_____which allowed one person to weave bolts of cloth instead of two people as before.
What was the flying shuttle?
Sir Humphry Davy, and English chemist, developed this life saving invention still used by many coal miners today.
What was the miner's safety lamp?
The developer of the first modern automobile in the United States using internal combustion engines.
Another name for capitalism
What is free enterprise?
Prior to the industrial revolution the majority of people engaged in this type of farming - growing just enough food to feed their own families.
What was subsistence farming?
Richard Arkwright invented this water-powered textile advancement on which cotton alone could be spun into thread.
What was the spinning frame?
The American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber of which a popular tire company is named after.
Who was Charles Goodyear?
Samuel Morse perfected this instrument capable of transmitting a code of "dots and dashes" over electrical wires.
What was the electric telegraph?
The United States further proved her status as a world power with the building of this 51-mile waterway that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
"The way of life based on the biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and that all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God"
What is the Protestant work ethic?
This man combined the spinning jenny and spinning frame into what was called the spinning mule.
Who was Samuel Crompton
The American inventor best known for his creation of the modern lockstitch sewing machine.
What was the diesel engine?
What was philanthropy?
The amount of farmers needed to farm land did this as a result of agricultural advancements.
What is decreased?
The patented work of Edmund Cartwright that replaced hand weaving for good.
What was the power loom?
Henry Bessemer and William Kelly both discovered this same process for converting iron into steel by using currents of air.
What was the Bessemer process?
An American inventor that built the first practical steamship.
Who was Robert Fulton?
The rise of capitalism allowed for the rise of these Industrial Giants who built their own super sized corporations and their wealth.
Who were John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan?