Agricultural Revolution
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
The Agricultural Revolution was a period of technological improvement and improved farming.
How did they make soap?
Boiling down animal fat
Thomas Edison invented the...
lightbulb
The industrial revolution allowed greater opportunities for businesses and organisation to work together on an international scale. This was known as...
globalisation
What is loose-packing?
A method companies used to 'pack' slaves onto ships in a manner that gives them more space.
What is selective breeding?
Only allowing the most fruitful plants and biggest animals to breed.
What was the knocker-up?
A job where people would knock on the doors to wake everyone up
What allowed the transportation of people and goods which helped expand factories and allow opportunities for travel and more leisure time?
Train
What was one economical long-term impact of the Industrial Revolution?
The development of the middle-class
What is tight-packing?
A method companies used to 'pack' slaves onto the ships to try and fit as many slaves as possible on the ship regardless of the living conditions it would impact.
What was the 4-crop rotation?
A crop rotation of four plots, where one field is left empty to avoid the soil becoming stripped of minerals and nutrients.
What is phossy jaw?
A disease caused by white phosphorus that caused cancer in the jaw bone.
What was the original purpose of the Steam Engine?
Pumping water out of the mines.
What is a prominent long-term impact of the Agricultural Revolution?
Urbanisation (movement of people from farms to cities)
What is the middle passage?
The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade
What are the Enclosure Laws?
A set of laws that forced citizens to buy farming land in order to use it.
Why were women and children the more desirable employees?
They were paid less, which made it cheap and children could climb under or into the machines easily.
What was used to communicate via morse-code?
The Telegraph
A long-term impact of the trains (in relation to time).
Timetables
What percentage of slaves were sent to the USA?
5%
Why did many people die?
Lack of food, disease, lack of money.
Why would workers have pay deductions?
Whistling, bathroom breaks, speaking, sneezing, lunch breaks, dirty feet, and unclean work benches.
Which piece of technology transformed the textile industry?
What is one example of an ecological impact of water pollution?
The Salmon disappeared for 150 years
The Atlantic Slave Trade is an example of
dehumanisation