growing just enough food to meet personal needs
subsistence farming
what is the most critical factor for the advancement of a nation
mastery of the food supply
what is a way of life based on the teaching that God expects man to work and work is a noble duty
Protestant Work Ethic
who invented the seed drill
Jethro Tull
who invented the steel plow
John Deere
who invented the mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormick
in which system was work done in homes or small, private shops
Domestic System
in which system was a large number of people employed to produce manufactured goods in a systematic way for wages
Factory System
what were wages compared to the cost of living called
real wages
in what kind of factories did the Industrial revolution begin
England’s textile factories
who invented the flying shuttle
John Kay
who invented the spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
who invented the spinning frame
Richard Arkwright
who invented the spinning mule
Samuel Crompton
who invented the power loom
Edmund Cartwright
what movement enabled landholders to control the breeding of their livestock
Enclosure Movement
who invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
who invented the first practical, coal-burning steam engine
James Watt
who invented the miner’s safety lamp
Sir Humphry Davy
what two people invented the process of converting iron into steel?
what is this process called?
Henry Bessemer and William Kelly
Bessemer Process
who invented the first practical steamship in 1807
Robert Fulton
who invented the first steam-powered locomotive in 1814
George Stephenson
who invented the internal combustion engine
Gotlieb Daimler
who invented the first type of engine that is used to power larger vehicles
Rudolph Diesel
