world history chapter 13

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what year was slavery abolished?

1865

what year did Haiti gain freedom from France ?

1884

what was it called the first revolution that helped the production of food?

Agricultural revolution

Who made the threshing machine?

Andrew Meikle

Who made the reaping machine

Cyrus McCormick

Who made the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

what was the name of the slave that escaped and moved to Philadelphia?

Fredrick Douglass

Who invented the spinning jenny?

James Hargreaves

Who made the steam engine?

James Watt

Who invented the seed drill?

Jethro Tull

Who invented the flying shuttle?

John Kay

who invented a self propelled tractor

John fowler

who wrote "the liberator"

Lloyd Garrison

who were the first group to speak out against slavery?

Quakers

who invented the patent

Richard Arkwright

why did farms slowly dwindle?

because more farmers moved to the cities

why where cottages overrun by factories

because you have more room for more production, more more room for more workers

what invention led to the need for more slaves

cotton gin (because with more cotton being produced they needed more people picking cotton)

T/F William Wilberforce was a slave owner and believed in owning slaves

false

t/f congress banned importation of slaves, and was enforced well

false

what act made women and boys under the age of 12?

mines act

was the sanitation good in the industrial revolution

nope

What did the 1833 Factory Act do?

placed limits on child labor

what is significant about George Whitefield

preached outdoors

what gave plant owners, managers, and government a new sense of purpose?

preaching/the word of God

what was john newton former job (before becoming a preacher)

slave ship captain

why was steam important for the industrial revolution?

steam helped reduced labor done by man or animals,

who inspected factories to make sure factories fallowed the rules?

the government

how many hours where children required to go to school

three

what was john wesly?

traveler/ preacher (he rode horse back)

what is a cottage industry?

where wool was spun for a profit (which led to more money for families)

What was the 10 hour Bill?

women and children were not allowed to work 10 hr. days at any British factory


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