1. Bell ringer
In a least one paragraph please respond to the following question:
If the Colombian Exchange had not taken place how would it affect your shopping experience at your local grocery store?

2. Colombian Exchange- Helped the population grow in Europe.

4. The agricultural revolution begins…
The increase in population also brought about the need for better farming techniques

5. Lands once common fenced off into individual plots.
Enclosure movement
Lands once common fenced off into individual plots.
Smaller landholdings combined into larger plots of land.

7. Effects of the enclosure movement
Wealthy landowners benefited
Small landowners lost their land

8. New inventions/ideas helped farm the land more efficiently
Crop rotation
Seed drill
Horse drawn hoe
Plows made of iron
instead of wood

9. Crop rotation

10. With machines doing the work many farmers not needed
They migrated to cities looking for work

11. industrial revolution
Called a revolution because it changed or revolutionized the productive capacity of England

12. What was the industrial revolution?
Era of rapid development;
New machines/technologies
Dramatic increase in production
Changed society
1750 in England

13. FYI- Textiles = cloth/woven fabric
The textile industry
FYI- Textiles = cloth/woven fabric
For generations, families had produced textiles in their homes.
A slow process.

15. Flying shuttle-greatly increased production

16. Spinning jenny – produced 8 times more thread than a single spinning wheel

17. Richard Arkwright –spinning mill
Brought workers and machinery together in one location, powered it by water

18. Opposition to industrialization- the luddites
Luddites- Self employed textile workers, feared the end of their trade. Caused damage to new machines.

20. Primary source document assignment
With a partner read and analyze the document on page 561 (Western Civ. book)
Answer the following questions:
1-Who is feeling threatened by the new machines?
2-What are scribbling machines?
3-Why are they worried about their children?