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18 Cards in this Set
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Edward cartwright |
Invented the power loon |
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Eli whitney |
Invented the cotton gin that cleans cotton |
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Entrepreneur |
Are people who take risk and build companys |
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Factors of production |
Location...labor...and....capital |
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Industrial revolution |
Is when people started making things with machines and not with there hands |
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James hargreoves |
Invented the spinning jenny |
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James watt |
The first person to build an efficient engine |
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Jethro tull |
Invented the seed drill |
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John kay |
Invented the flying shuttle |
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Political stability |
Great Britain had a very well-balanced economy |
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Richard arkwright |
Invented the water frame |
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Robert Bakewell |
Figured out selective breeding |
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Robert Fulton |
Invented the steamboat called the Clermont |
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Rocket |
Was the first train to win the race at a speed of 24 miles per hour |
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Trevithick and stephenson |
Are the two guys that made the rocket and won the race |
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working conditions |
- 14 hour days 6 days a week - dangerous working conditions - child labor - no government programs - no minimum wage |
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Luddites |
Where people that were mad about the machines taking their jobs- they would sabotage the machines |
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Long lasting positives in the industrial revolution |
- created jobs for people - technology got advanced - raised the standard of living meaning people had more stuff - working conditions improved because government officials said there need to be safety policies - England's wealth improved |
