Chapter 9: The Industrial Revolution

The _____________ refers to the greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England in the middle 1700s.

• Mechanical Revolution

• Modern Revolution

• Factory Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

____________________________ was one of the first of these scientific farmers who saw that the usual way of sowing seed by scattering it across the ground was wasteful and solved this problem with an invention called the seed drill in about 1701. 

• Jethro Tull

   

• Robert Bakewell

• John Deere

• Cyrus McCormick

Which of the following was not one of the factors that led to England becoming the first country to industrialize? 

• Abundant Economic Resources (Capital)

• A Strong Military

• Abundant Natural Resources

• A Large Population to Provide Labor

Collectively the resources needed to produce goods and services required for industrialization are called the ________________. 

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  Components of Production

• Productive Resources

• Factors of Production

• Compatible Resources

In 1733, a machinist named John Kay invented the boat-shaped piece of wood to which yarn was attached that sped back and forth on wheels that could doubled the work a weaver could do in a day called the ___________________.

• Textile Shuttle

• Weaving Shuttle

• Flying Shuttle

• Spinning Shuttle

Around 1764, ________________ invented the spinning jenny which allowed one spinner to work eight threads at a time.

• James Hargreaves

   

• Thomas Edison

• Eli Whitney

• Edmund Cartwright’s

Who invented the power loom in 1787 that sped up weaving .by being powered by running water?

• Richard Arkwright

• Eli Whitney

• Edmund Cartwright

• James Hargreaves

Wealthy textile merchants took the work of spinning and weaving out of the house by setting up the machines in large buildings called____________________.

•  Industrial Centers

• Galleries

• Wharehouses

• Factories

Removing seeds from the raw cotton by hand was hard work. In 1793, an American inventor named ____________ invented a machine to speed the chore.

• Thomas Edison

• Eli Whitney

• Richard Awkwright

• James Watt

_____________________ figured out a way to make the steam engine work faster and more efficiently while burning less fuel.

• Eli Whitney

• Richard Arkwright

• Robert Fulton

• James Watt