Macclesfield in the Industrial Revolution

The town had been making silk covered _______ since the Middle Ages using holly wood?

buttons

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Where the first silk making machine was used?

derby

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The first name of the person built the first silk mill in Macclesfield in 1743?

charles

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The river which was very useful for providing water power for the silk mills?

bollin

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The name for the Macclesfield riot in 1812?

potato

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The group of people who attacked factories and new
machines, which were taking jobs away from
handloom weavers and other textile workers?

luddites

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Food prices were ______ so more families were struggling to survive?

rising

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A disease that broke out causing painful cramps,
dehydration, skin discolouration and death?

cholera

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The thing that polluted the air coming
from factories using steam engines and from
houses?

smoke

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People __________ their houses to get rid of the
miasma (poisoned air) during the cholera outbreaks in Macclesfield (1831-48)?

ventilated

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After 1850 new versions of these were built to supply clean water?

reservoirs

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A compass direction and the park that was opened after 1850 (after the cholera outbreak) in Macclesfield?

west

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The area that elects an MP to represent it in
Parliament?

constituency

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A constituency that had very few people living
there but still had 1 or 2 MPs. People often
sold their votes. The answer is the type of borough?

rotten

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When people vote in private so no-one else can
see. This avoids intimidation?

secret voting

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