Inventions + Inventors
Who/what is the WATER FRAME
-Richard Arkwright
-More material/less labour + time
-Used rapid water to spin wheel
Who invented the mechanical seed drill/what was it?(BONUS: What else did he invent?)
-Jethro Tull
-Allowed seeds to be planted in rows efficiently
James Watt’s buisness partner in improving the steam engine
Define Enclosure movement + characteristics
-DEF: Enclosed lands by fences (high) or hedges
-Larger fields = enclosures
-Wealthy big farmers (corportations)
Who/what is “An Essay on the Principle of Population”
-Thomas Malthus
-Aid to poor = bigger population
-Lowering birth rate = less poverty
Results of Enclosure movement
-Deforastation
-Change in patterns of landowning
-Living conditions improved = growing populations
-Farmers become city factory workers
Who/what is utilitarianism
-Jeremy Bentham
-Arguges government should do greatest good for greatest number of people
Reason crop rotation system was an improvement to the 3 field system
-Preserved land by using 1 field for different crops then 3 different fields
-Different plants = different nutrience
-Robert Owen
-“New Lanark”
-”New Harmony”
Source of British cotton
USA, India, British Colonies