Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
People
Inventions
The Revolution
100
This is another term for business and manufacturing.
What is industry?
100
This is the direction you look to see clouds.
What is up?
100
In about 1785, this man invented a steam-powered loom.
Who was Edmund Cartwright?
100
In about 1785 Edmund Cartwright invented a loom powered by this.
What was steam?
100
For Great Britain, these served as markets for the goods that they sold.
What were colonies?
200
This is material that is provided by nature.
What is a natural resource?
200
This is material in its natural condition.
What is raw material?
200
In 1764, this man came up with a machine to spin yarn.
Who was James Hargreaves?
200
This invention used the same ideas as the spinning wheel, but could spin as many as 80 threads at one time.
What was the spinning jenny?
200
Britain had a good supply of these two natural resources.
What are coal and iron?
300
This means to bring to one country from another.
What is import?
300
This is a building where goods are made by machinery.
What is a factory?
300
In 1733 this British man invented a shuttle, a device on a loom.
Who was John Kay?
300
This invention spun cotton thread and ran by water power.
What was the water frame?
300
The most dramatic changes in industry began in Great Britain by about this year.
What is 1750?
400
This is another term for cloth or fabric made by weaving.
What is a textile?
400
This is a person that hopes to make a profit by lending money to a business.
What is an investor?
400
In 1779, this man combined the spinning jenny and the water frame into one machine and called it the mule.
Who was Samuel Crompton?
400
This machine, invented by Samuel Crompton, combined the spinning jenny and the water frame into one machine.
What was the mule?
400
In the 1700s, steam powered these two modes of transportation.
What were locomotives and ships?
500
This term means the act of carrying from one place to another.
What is transportation?
500
This is a group of workers who join together to protect their wages, working conditions, and job benefits.
What is a labor union?
500
In 1769, this man invented a machine called the water frame.
Who was Richard Arkwright?
500
This is considered to be the first important invention in the textile-making revolution.
What is the flying shuttle?
500
The Industrial Revolution began in this country.
What is Great Britain?
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