Cottage Industry and the Agricultural Revolution

Who were the main people that were apart of the cottage industry?

• Farmers and land owners
• merchants and factory workers
• farmers and merchants
• factory workers and farmers

Which of the following was not an invention during the Agricultural Revolution?

• plow
• tractor
• seed drill
• reaper

What best describes the way of life in the cottage industry?

• Farmers and merchants work together to make an equal amount of profit on material
• Merchants create cloth from the resources farmers grow to make a profit
• Merchants have farmers create the cloth and pay them little to do the work and in turn make a large profit
• Farmers grow the crops and make a large profit by selling the products to the merchants

What was a negative impact on farmers when the inventions started to be used?

• as many farmers were no longer needed because the inventions were doing most of the work for them
• Farmers were getting a lot of crops too fast and they were starting to go bad
• Merchants figured out how to make their own crops so they weren't buying them as often

Why did the farmers work for little pay on such a hard job?

• They werent making enough money selling the crops they produced.
• They didn't have work during the winter months so it was a little income.
• Merchants lied to them telling them they would get paid alot more by making the goods.

What did the plow do?

• drainage for the crops
• plowed down the wheat for the farmers to collect
• dug ditches for seeds
• planted seeds

What did the seed drill do?

• drainage for the crops
• plowed down the wheat for the farmers to collect
• dug ditches for seeds
• planted seeds

What did the reaper do?

• drainage for the crops
• cut down the wheat for the farmers to collect
• dug ditches for seeds
• planted seeds

Why did the agricultural revolution have such a large impact on the industrial revolution?

• Farmers were put out of jobs and had to move to the city to work in factories
• the inventions created made factory life easier
• It didn't.
• It allowed factories to be created on the country side

What product was made in the cottage industry?

• silk
• velvet
• inventions
• cloth