9.1 - The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution

A period of major changes in the way products are made, using machines instead of by hand, that began in England in the late 1700s and spread to other countries.

• Industrial Revolution
• Factors of Production

The process of wealthy landowners fencing off common land that was previously used by village farmers, creating larger, private fields.

• Enclosure
• Yields

The practice of planting different crops in a field each year to maintain soil fertility and increase crop yields.

• Crop Rotation
• Factors of Production

The process of a society transforming from an agricultural economy to one based on manufacturing and industry.

• Industrialization
• Entrepreneur

The resources needed to produce goods and services, including land, labor, and capital.

• Factors of Production
• Yields

Large buildings where goods are manufactured using machines.

• Factories
• Tenant

A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business.

• Entrepreneur
• Factors of Production

A person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.

• Tenant
• Societies

The full quantity of something, such as a crop.

• Yields
• Harvesting

The process of gathering a ripe crop.

• Harvesting
• Yields