The Industrial Revolution

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  1. 2. These people travelled from India to trade and open shops in Natal. They moved inland when diamonds and gold were discovered.
  2. 4. Factory workers became__________ while the workers lived in poverty.
  3. 7. This man came to South Africa in 1870 and became a successful mine owner. He formed the De Beers Mining Company.
  4. 11. This Kingdom was still independent in the 1860s which is why the British had to look for labour elsewhere.
  5. 12. These were invented to help workers separate grains of wheat from the husks and stalks more efficiently
  6. 13. The time in history during which there were vast improvements in production and changes in manufacturing, agriculture, mining, transportation, and social and economic conditions.
  7. 14. One of the oldest cottage industries in England.
  8. 16. A person who has a trading business.
  9. 17. To have all the power in an industry.
  10. 18. These were created to help save money for people who were ill or unemployed. The members also fought for shorter working hours and the end of child labour.
  11. 19. This country did not exist before the Industrial Revolution.
  12. 20. This man was Rhodes' biggest competition.
  13. 21. Children's safety was horribly ____________ in the mines and factories
  14. 23. The piece of land which a digger 'claimed' as the place he would be allowed to dig for diamonds.
  15. 24. These were places established to help the poor. In exchange for food and a place to sleep, people worked for no pay.
  16. 27. These were protests and resistance by farm labourers that spread all over Southern England in 1830.
  17. 28. Industries at home that made handicrafts such as cloths.
  18. 30. To make things using machines.
  19. 32. There was a great need for this material to improve a machine's ability to withstand steam.
  20. 33. This is the place where the first diamonds were found in South Africa.
  21. 34. This was a British Colony in Southern Africa that used slavery to grow sugar cane.
  22. 35. These were people that protested against the use of machines in factories. They blamed a man named Ned Ludd for their actions.
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  1. 1. The process that describes the movement of people away from rural areas to towns and cities.
  2. 3. This describes workers who were on contract to work for a certain amount of time for a certain wage for an employer.
  3. 5. __________ were the best source of work because they could reach small places, they could be paid little, and they seldom protested.
  4. 6. Land that is shared and can be used by everyone.
  5. 8. This system was introduced and it meant that only one wealthy person could own and use one section of land.
  6. 9. This person improved the technology of the steam engine in about 1770.
  7. 10. The house of John Pinney and his family. It was built in 1790 with the mony Pinney made from his slave sugar plantations.
  8. 15. An alias that was used by protesters to protect their identities during the riots.
  9. 22. These were built because machines were too large to fit into people's houses.
  10. 25. This whole country was a British Colony.
  11. 26. These were initially developed to improve crop and livestock production.
  12. 29. John MacAdam invented this to make transport easier
  13. 31. These became the main way in which unprocessed goods were transported.