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- solved this problem by producing theSPINNING JENNY
- the process offencing off land formerly shared by peasant farmers.
- urged farmersto plant turnips which restored exhausted soil.
- shabby apartment buildings, often a dozen to a room.
- predicted that population would soonoutpace food supply and urged people to have fewer children. He warned of war, disease and famine.
- or wealth to invest and demand for newer and better goods were the ingredients, in addition to technology, that lead to industrialization.
- urging people to improve their lot by adopting sober moral ways.
- Britain had been a center in the Scientific revolution and had many skilled mechanics eager to meet the growing demands for new practical inventions.
- invented a seed drill which allowed farmers toplant in straight rows and save seed rather than scatter it on a field.
- developed steam powered locomotives to pull carriages on iron rails.
- people who made cloth, worked so fast that they soon outpaced the SPINNERS
- The agricultural revolution put man people out of work, freeing them to mine coal, build factories and run machines.
- The First Great Awakening can be seen as a direct re-(A) Puritanism(B) The Enlightenment(C)Transcendentalism(D)Existentialism
- Between 1820 and 1854, the greatest number of immigrants to the United States came from(A) France(B) Russia(C) EnglandD) Ireland
- What did Barton start to aid people during times of war and natural disasters?
- Who takes command of Southern army at Richmond in Spring 1862
- **After Bull Run who did Lincoln appoint as the head of the Army of the Potomac
- **Who was Lincoln's assassination devastating to?
- This was the Virginia site of lees surrender to grant on April 9
- What did Grant's seizing Vicksburg give theUnion control of