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Indus Rev
9th grade Industrial Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Elba | tiny island off the Italian coast where Napoleon was first exiled to |
| St. Helena | A remote island in the South Atlantic where Napoleon was sent after he was defeated. This is where he eventually died. |
| Waterloo | Village in Belgium where the British Army prepared for battle against Napoleon. |
| Duke Wellington | Led the army that defeated Napoleon |
| Industrial Revolution | Period where Great Britain, followed by the rest of the world, switched from animal and human power to machine based power |
| Enclosure Movement | Big farms got bigger and small farmers left for the growing cities |
| Industrialization | The process of switching over to machine power |
| Crop Rotation | Interchanging crops that deplete the soil one year with crops that replenish the soil the next |
| Selective Breeding | Allowing only the best animals to breed resulting in better quality animals (heavier and more nutritious food animals) |
| British Advantage in Industrialization over other countries | Abundant Natural Resources |
| Textiles | goods made out of cloth |
| Flying Shuttle | Weaving invention that doubled the speed of weaving production |
| Spinning Jenny | Spinning invention that allowed one spinner to weave 8 spools of thread at one time |
| Water Frame | Invention that allowed weavers and spinners to utilize waterpower to run machines |
| Power Loom | fastest weaving machine yet |
| Cotton Gin | sped up cotton cleaning, which shocked the whole system by dramatically increasing the supply of raw material |
| Steam Engine | used to pump water and haul coal carts out |
| McAdams Roads | used bigger rocks covered by smaller gravel as a road surface (macadam surface) |
| Canals | narrow man-made water passages used to transport raw materials and goods to and from factories |
| Steam Locomotive | "Iron Horse" |
| Disadvantage of the railroad | Pollution |
| Advantages of the railroad | created millions of new jobs |
| urbanization | the growth of cities caused by the movement of people from rural to urban settings. |
| Cause of urbanization | loss of land |
| Sadler Committee Report | Described the working conditions in the factories |
| Adam Smith | originator of the free market thinking and the 3 laws of economics |
| Capitalism | Free Market Thinking |
| Law of Self-Interest | In any economic decision, the decision maker will always act in his/her/its best interest first |
| Law of Competition | In any marketplace, entities must be free to compete thus insuring lowest possible prices and better potential products |
| Law of Supply and Demand | In any free marketplace, decisions will be made according to the will of the market |
| Laissez-faire Economics | "Let alone" or "hands off". Smith believed the government should be there to protect the economy, but not to interfere |
| Invisible Hand | Supply will be determined by demand |
| Napoleon's mistake | Invasion of Russia |
| John Kay | Flying shuttle |
| James Hargreaves | Spinning Jenny |
| Richard Arkwright | Water Frame |
| Edmund Cartwright | Power Loom |
| Eli Whitney | Cotton Gin |
| James Watt | Steam Engine |
| Where did the Industrial Revolution begin | Great Britain |
| Where Napoleon was defeated | Waterloo |
| Accidents | Disadvantage of the railroad |
| Sparked more industrial growth by giving manufacturers a fast, relatively inexpensive way to transport raw materials and products | Advantage of the railroad |
| Working conditions in the factories | Long hours and dangerous |
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