Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Define the Enclosure System
An area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier.
Define Industrial Revolution
Overthrow of government, ruler, or political system. Major change in ideas or practice.
Define Crop Rotation
The practice of growing first one and then another crop on the same land to preserve the ability of the soil to grow.
Define Industrialization
To build and operate factories and businesses in an area.
What are the 3 factors of production?
Land, labor, and capitol (money).
Define Factory
A building or buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled by machine and/or people.
Define Entrepener
A person who organizes and operates a business, taking on greater than normal financial risks.
Define Urbanization
City building and the movement of people into cities.
Define Textile Industry
The making of cloth or fabric.
When did the Industrial Revolution begin and roughly ended?
1760 to some time between 1820-1840.
How did the Industrial Revolution begin?
New technology in farming, new ideas; farming (crop rotations and the enclosure system), and available work.
Who was Jethro Tull and what did he do to help grow crops?
Scientific farmer who invented the seed drill.
What was farming like prior to the invention of the seed drill?
Farmers scattered seeds praying crops would grow but really the seeds would move by the wind or birds would take the seeds. It was not organized nor a good crop system.
What did the seed drill allow you to do?
Allowed farmers to to sow seeds in well-spaced rows at specific depths.
What were two important results of the enclosure movement?
- Landowners experimented with new agricultural methods.
- Large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities to work in factories.
