The Industrial Revolution

What was revolutionary about the Industrial Revolution?

• It changed the way people lived.

• It changed the way people worked.

• It changed the way people traveled to work.

• It changed everything.

Which is not a factor in the start of the Industrial Revolution?

• The Agrarian Revolution

• A population explosion

• Less disease

• A revolution in energy

Farmers improved livestock breeding and created better varieties of

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Jethro Tull invented this . . .

• the seed drill

• the spinning jenny

• the water frame

• the steam engine

This was done to prevent a field from losing all of its important minerals.

• Agrarian Revolution

• enclosure movement

• crop elimination

• crop rotation

What was the enclosure movement?

• The movement of people to the cities.

• Poor farmers combined their fields to compete with larger farms.

• Wealthy farmers bought up land and combined small fields to create larger, fenced-in fields

• The consolidation of farms by the government to increase production.

The enclosure movement (a)   poor farmers off their land

Innovations in science and technology and the establishment of trade can lead to revolutionary changes in the ways we live and work.

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What factors sparked the industrial revolution, exploration, and international trade?

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Can innovations and trade lead to revolutionary change?

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