The Agricultural and Industrial Revolution

Great Britain: England, Wales, Scotland, Nothern Ireland.
     In the 1600s England had a subsistince farming- Farming that of what your family only needs. They only grow enough to supply their family.
     In the 1700s we had the Enclosure Movement: England had common grounds(land owned by everybody) In this movement they started fencing all the common grounds off. The citizens who were using the common grounds had theyre farms taken from them and given to larger farm owners. People who were farming on smaller lands were called tennant farmers. People who couldn't find work as a tennent farmer were forced to move into cities. Farmers start to grow more crops and start looking for effiency. Jethro Toll was concerned about the amount of seed that was being wasted by hand seeding, so he invented the seed drill.
     Crop Rotation- Splitting up your land into sections for different seeds, then rotate each year. You do this because each crop requires different nutrients.
     Wood was replaced by medal becauseit was stronger, and lasted longer. Replacable blades were for the plows that broke so you wouldn't have to buy a whole new plow, you just replace the blade.
People are starting to move to the cities to find work. But there is no work. But because of factors of preduction Great Britain is becoming the leader of the industrial revolution. Natural resources were found like coal and ironore. The three factors of production are land, labor, and natural resources.
Great Britain had water used for food, transportation, and mills for power. There was a disadvantage though because of drought, flood, and it could get clogged up.
     In the textile industry, they made clothes by hand. Mechanisation, meant they created a machine to make all the clothes for them.
     The factory system came into play because of the effeincy matter. People would come in an work on these machines for a certain wager a day.
     Now the steam engine is created. Now we can power factories, boats, and locomotives. Now people can travel a lot faster. Our communicationn is also becoming quicker.