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Disadvantages of traditional farming (traditional or pre-industrial society)

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Wasted land(fallow)
Livestock destroyed crops(no fences)
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Farming in the Middle Ages (traditional or pre-industrial society)

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Farming villages
Three common fields (bread, livestock food, fallow)
Common pastures

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Life of peasant villages (traditional or pre-industrial society)

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Lived subsistence level
Worked long hours
Life revolves around church
Artisans

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Forces for change (traditional or pre-industrial society)

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Population growth

Napoleon blockades

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Enclosure movement (agricultural movement)

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Ended common land

Wool became profitable

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Crop rotation (agricultural movement)

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Scientific farming (trial and error)
Less fallow fields
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Other discoveries (agricultural movement)

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Jethro tull’s seed drill (plants seeds)

New world crops: maize and potatoes

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Effects of agricultural revolution (agricultural movement)

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Large-scale land owners/ poor wage laborers
Increased productivity
Healthier diet
Inoculation for small pox
Increased urban population
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Cottage industry and early capitalism (agricultural movement)

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Mercantilism and rising demand
Cottage industry
Capitalism (economic system, competitiveness, less government regulation), Adam smith (father of capitalism)

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Effects of cottage industry (agricultural revolution)

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Out sourced jobs
Merchants received most of the profits
Laborers work from home

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(Textile industry and factory system)

Textile industry invented

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More demand
International market grew and cottage industry couldn’t keep up because they weren’t fast enough and machines wouldn’t fit in homes

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Rise of the factory

Textile industry and factory system

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Constant innovation

Workers organized in factories (output increased)

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Effects of textile factories in Britain (Textile industry and factory system)

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Ended cottage industry

Cotton manufacturing center of the world

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(Steam engine: energy for the industrial revolution)

The need for energy

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Water power replaced

Steam engine technology evolved(James watt)

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How the steam engine works (Steam engine: energy for the industrial revolution)

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Forced steam produces power (coal heats the water)

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Effects of the steam engine (Steam engine: energy for the industrial revolution)

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Revolutionary invention for industry

Factories could be built in more locations (not restricted next to water)

Steam locomotive and improved transportation

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(Iron and coal: energy for the industrial revolution)

The need for iron

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Industrial revolutions increased the demand for iron(strong metal)

Iron smelting changes the flexibility and makes it more durable

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The need for coal (Iron and coal: energy for the industrial revolution)

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Coal was abundant and replaced wood

Needed for iron production

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Alfred Nobel

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Created dynamite

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Samuel slater

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Designed first textile mill

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Alexander graham bell

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Created telegraph with Samuel f.b morse and created telephone

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Alessandro Volta

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Created battery

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Wright brothers

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Created airplane

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Gottlieb Daimler

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Automobile/ engine

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Nikolaus Otto

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Engine

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John mcadam

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Improved roads with asphalt

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Robert Fulton

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Created steam boat

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Duryea brothers

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Gas powered automobile

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Isaac singer

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Created sewing machine

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Thomas Edison

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Created light bulb

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Rufoft diesel

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Diesel engine

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Samuel f.b morse

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Created telegraph and morse code

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Eli Whitney

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Cotton gin

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Richard Arkwright

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Spinning mill

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James watt

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Steam engine

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Cyrus field

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Transatlantic cable

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England

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Closer to other countries
Majority of female workers were ages 20 and older
Technologically advanced
Majority of female workers worked in cotton industry
Had all Sunday’s off

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England and Japan

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Islands
Exchanged ideas
Majority of workers were female
Worked long hours
Short meal breaks
Minimum wage and long hours
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Japan

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Borrowed ideas from England
Majority of female workers were ages 15-20
More manual labor
Majority of female workers worked in silk industry
Less workers and factories
One day off every 2 weeks

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Business cycle

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Times of prosperity and recession in the economy (look at picture in notebook)

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