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Industrial revolutio
Junior Cert History
Term | Definition |
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Domestic Industry | industry in the home |
Eclosure | Having ditches and walls in fields |
crop rotation | changing crops from one field to another each year |
selective breeding | mating the best breeds of animals |
turnpike trusts | tolls on the roads to pay for the upkeep of roads |
tolls | paying to use the new roads |
canal | man made river |
Hargreaves | inventor of the "spinning Jenny" |
Spinning Jenny | Invention-8 spools of thread could be used on it |
Iron/Steel | metal-Resource, strong |
mills | Factories |
Telford and Macadam | Improved roads |
Urbanisation | Towns grew around the factories |
slums | Poor areas of the towns |
Robert Owen | Scottish factory owner (nice guy) |
Leisure time | spare time for past times and travel |
coal mines | underground-where coal was take from |
trappers | coalmine workers |