The Agricultural Revolution
Inventions
Society
Why Britain?
From Cottage to Factory
100
Small farms in Britain were converted into larger farms in this movement.
What is enclosure?
100
This invention made it possible for one person to run a big loom.
What is the flying shuttle?
100
People who were doctors, lawyers and engineers in Britain were considered to be part of this class in society
What is the middle class?
100
Because Britain developed new innovations like Macadams roads and the Rocket, these were more easily transported.
What are raw materials?
100
This industry allowed people to make many of the products they used in their homes.
What is the cottage industry?
200
Areas that could traditionally be used by all townspeople were known as this.
What is the commons?
200
This invention was named for the inventors wife and allowed spinners to do the work of many.
What is the spinning jenny?
200
This law was intended to help the poor but was extremely unsuccessful.
What is the Poor Law?
200
The Industrial Revolution occured first in Britain because there was an excess of this, money used to invent in business.
What is capital?
200
These were built to house the new inventions that required more energy and more room to produce consumer goods.
What are factories?
300
This was invented by Jethro Tull and improved seed planting by making it faster and less wasteful.
What is the seed drill?
300
This invention combines the best features of the Water Frame and the Spinning Jenny.
What is the Mule?
300
During the Industrial Revolution many people chose not to move to cities and instead moved to these.
What are the colonies?
300
Britain experienced an increase in this from the 1600s onwards, a large amount of people in search of jobs.
What is labour supply?
300
This group of workers were exploited by factory owners and forced to work in horrendous working conditions because education was not manditory.
What are child labourers?
400
He invents a crop rotation system that allows farmers to use their land all year round, making farming more profitable.
Who is Turnip Townshend?
400
By the early 19th century there were 4000 kms of these, criss-crossed all over England to transport raw materials.
What are canals?
400
This policy helped encourage the Industrial Revolution because business and industry remained free from government regulation.
What is laissez-faire?
400
This revolution was important to the Industrial Revolution because it fed the large populations of people in the cities.
What is the agricultural revolution?
400
This Act in 1802 made it illegal for children to work more thant 12 hours straight.
What is the Factory Act?
500
Landowners in Scotland displaced their poor farmers to use the land to raise sheep in this event.
What is clearances?
500
This form of coal was heated to burn off the sulpur that coal contains and was invented by Abraham Darby.
What is coke?
500
These two parties made up the English Parliament.
What are the Whigs and the Tories?
500
This word means a significant change in government or some aspect of society.
What is revolution?
500
More changes were made to the Factory Act and in 1819 it became illegal to hire children under this age to work in the textile industry.
What is 9 years old?
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