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Chapter 22: The Industrial Revolution Section 1: Origins of the Industrial Revolution
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The Agricultural Revolution Improvements that increased production and made farm labor easier
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Enclosure movement: process by which common lands were fenced off into individual holdings
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Jethro Tull English landowner who invented a seed drill that made it possible to plant seeds in straight rows
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Charles “Turnip” Townshend Crop Rotation : helped farmers produce more crops using the same amount of land
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Results of Agricultural Revolution Only wealthy farmers could afford the new improvements in agriculture Farm workers were now replaced by machines
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Industrial Revolution Era of rapid industrial development Began in Great Britain
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Factors of Production Great Britain had land, capital, and labor conditions
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The Textile Industry Textile: a cloth, esp. one manufactured by weaving or knitting Mechanization: automatic machinery used to increase production
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Eli Whitney American inventor of the Cotton Gin
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Bessemer Process A cheaper and more efficient method of making steel
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Transportation George Stephenson – perfected a steam locomotive that ran on rails Robert Fulton – American engineer who was the first to build a profitable steamboat (the Clermont)
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The Communications Revolution Samuel Morse: the American who invented the telegraph and a system for encoding the alphabet (Morse Code)
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