Device that made the process of separating cotton seeds from fibers more efficient; invented by Eli Whitney
What is the cotton gin?
100
The Industrial Revolution brought the beginning of this by using coal and steam engines as energy sources rather than water, wind, and wood
What is the fossil fuel age?
100
The center of economic activity at the time
What is London?
200
Mode of transportation that made it easier to move heavy materials across Britain
What is the railway?
200
The first entrepreneurs of the Industrial Revolution were from this class
What is the farmer class?
200
The roots of the Industrial Revolution.
What is agriculture?
300
Most important textile device created that increased productivity by spinning sixteen threads at once
What is the spinning jenny?
300
Intensified human labor despite being more productive
What are machines?
300
Most revolutionary change of the Industrial Revolution that made transportation and industrialization more modern and efficient - changed from water to coal and steam
What are new forms of energy?
400
Material used for textiles that revolutionized clothing
What is cotton?
400
The fencing in of large areas of land; commercialized agriculture and made property organization more modern
What is enclosure?
400
Accounted for 2/3 of the labor force in textiles
What are women and children?
500
Resource used to heat metal to form iron; more abundant and efficient than wood
What is coal?
500
The Industrial Revolution began here
What is Great Britain?
500
Term used in Britain to describe the construction workers who built the railways and canals