Economic and Social Revolutions

Question 1

Agrarian Revolution

Answer 1

Changes in farming

Enclosure movement

Surplus of food

Society stabilized

Population increases

Leads to Industrial Revolution

Question 2

Industrial Revolution

Answer 2

Only can happen after agrarian revolution

Starts in Britain (geography, middle class, money to invest, technology)

Britain has raw materials

Question 3

Impact of the Industrial Revolution

Answer 3

Factory system
Mass production
Laissez Faire
Big Business
Middle Class
Urbanization (moving to cities for work)
Poor working conditions (labor unions)

Question 4

Laissez Faire

Answer 4

Government is hands off the economy

“Lazy”

Adam Smith writes “The Wealth of Nations”