History 13 (2)

The enclosure movement of the 17th and 18th centuries

• Attempted to reunite all Christians in one church

• Sought to group of factories closely together

• Fenced in public land for private use

• Sought to ban trade with nations outside of Europe

• Sought to ban emigration from Europe to north America

The enclosure Acts affected the industrial resolution by

• Driving peasants off their land and thereby creating the workforce needed for factories and mines

• Bankrupting wealthy landowners, convincing them to turn to manufacturing

• Increasing the land under cultivation, destroying trees, and increasing reliance on coal for fuel

• Educating peasants and turning them into skilled workers

• Setting more land aside for new factories and mines

Farmers improved crop yields in the 1700 's by

• Using the Bessemer process

• Practicing division of labor

• Relying on mass production

• Using Townshend's idea of crop rotation

• Using the assembly line

which best describes the effects of the "agricultural revolution" in Europe

• Less organic food was grown

• there were fewer famines and better crops yields

• Serfdom was abolished

• Peasants revolted and took control of manors

• poverty was eliminated

Under the domestic system in England

• Shipbuilding was made a state monopoly

• factory workers were prohibited from joining unions

• Farmers expanded the use of crop rotation and fertilization

• Spinning and weaving of yarn and cloth was done in the workers' home

• the immigration of foreign workers was expanded to take advantage of the skills of the French textile workers

The industrial revolution began in England for the following reasons except

• England had an adequate supply of raw materials

• considerable money was available for investments

• there was a large supply of available workers

• the government was stable

• Prices were high due to an inadequate food supply

which revolution had a greater impact on contemporary life

• the glorious

• the commercial

• the american

• the French

• The industrial

All are characteristics of the industrial revolution except that it

• replaced hand manufacture with machine production

• concentrated the working force in factories

• was a period of dramatic advancement

• took place first in France

• Transformed European society

which invention, above all, allowed the industrial revolution to take place

• the cotton gin

• electricity

• the internal combustion engine

• the paddle wheel

• the steam engine

the first modern factories arose in the

• furniture making industry

• steel industry

• textile industry

• railroad industry

• chemical industry