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Industrial revolutio
Junior Cert History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |