Vocab 1
Large buildings in which machines are used to create goods
What is Factory?
Right to vote
What is Suffrage?
The unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain
What is Agricultural Revolution?
Flying Shuttle
John Kay
Spun 8-10 threads at a time; used at home
Spinning Jenny
To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands
What is strike?
Movement in which an element of coercion exists, such as movement of people due to political conflict, natural disaster or environmental hazard. Examples of forced migration can be refugees fleeing homelands, native peoples displaced from tribal lands, forced enslavement of groups for economic gain, people displaced by famine or due to natural, environmental, chemical or nuclear disasters.
What is Forced Migration?
Controllable food supply, grow food surplus, can be practiced all over the world.
What are the advantages of agriculture (farming)?
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Improved quality of animals to produce more meat, milk, and wool
Stock Breeding
Refers to a person’s decision to freely relocate from one place and settle in another.
What is Voluntary migration?
Bring people to a new area.
What is Pull Factor?
Changing environment of the planet, farming is hard
What are the disadvantages of agriculture (farming)?
Edmund Cartwright
Power Loom
Made grain harvesting easier
Mechanical Reaper
Things that make people want to leave (or force them to leave) their original area.
What is Push Factor?
An association of workers formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages
What is Labor Unions?
humans have changed it via building dams
clearing forests
drilling for oil
What are some ways in which humans have had an impactful change on the environment?
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves
Separated seed from raw cotton
Cotton Gin
The use of children as workers in factories and mines
What is Child Labor?
Refers to the study of the statistical change over time
of the population of people living in a place.
What is Demographic Shift?
Population
Leisure
Fertility rite
Alcohol
What are some theories for the occurrence of the agricultural revolution?
Richard Arkwright
Water Frame
Horse-drawn seed drill
Planted seeds in straight rows