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14 Cards in this Set
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Lord who told farmers to grow turnips to help soil
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Charles Townshend
I know a "shed" would "turnip" in "town"! |
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Inventor of the seed drill
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Jethro Tull
Maybe the wrong Jethro Tull... |
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Inventor of a coal-powered steam engine to pump water out of mines
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Thomas Newcomen
(that's his engine up there) |
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Improved Newcomen's engine
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James Watt
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Came up with new methods for producing iron
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Abraham Darby
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Drug that knocks you out for surgery
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Anasthetic
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Fencing off land
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Enclosure
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Separate metal from ore
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Smelt
"S"eparate "MET"a"L" = SMETL...SMELT |
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Industrial Revolution changed life by...
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- people bought clothes and food from stores
- homes were combined into apartment buildings - people could travel to faraway places faster - messages sent by telegraph and many more... |
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3 causes of population explosion
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The People Bomb! (just kidding!). Overall, less people died because
1. better agriculture = less famine 2. better food = stronger women = healthier babies 3. better hygiene = fewer diseases |
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Impact of steam power
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less work for humans, better (drier!) mines and miners, better travel on steam boats
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Impact of improved iron
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better quality of iron, less expensive iron, better building materials, use for railroads
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Effects of the agri. revolution
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better farm products and tools, better ways to plant seeds, better ways to use land, private owned land which pushed small farmers to move to the city
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How did upping population affect the Ind. Revolution?
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more people alive required finding faster, better ways to make products, and they needed much more food and clothes for the bigger population
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