Subsistance farming- growing only what your family needs.
Enclosure movement- starting fencing all the common ground off
Common ground- land owned by everyone
Small families had farms taken and given to larger families in the enclosure movement
Tenant farmers
Those who couldnt be tenant farmers were forced to move
A man named Jethroh Toll was concerned about the amount of seed wasted by hand seeding, so he invented the seed drill, which made it more efficient to plant seed and plant in straight rows, made harvest easier and more efficient
crop rotation- rotating the crops in the land you plant them in, because each crop requires a different nuetrients
-they continue to make advancements. they go from a wooden plow to a medal plow
-they created an interchangable plow, replaceable blades
-now larger populations in the cities, to find work, there is no work right now but soon there will be.
-Great Britain because of factors of productions is now the leader of production in europe because of natural resourses, the 2 top in great britian -iron ore, and coal
-the three factors of production-land, natural resourses and labor
-Great Britian also has water and rivers-power/energy, transportation
textile industry/clothing
-were made by hand, long time
-mechanization of things, mechanics
-they are now making things with machiness, they created a machine that can make clothes by almost 100,000 times faster
-the factory system now comes into play, we are now going into a age when people can man these machines for a flat rate a day and continue to pump out all these textiles.
-the steam engine has finally been created, now ways to power factories and boats and locomotives, travel time has been cut well over 1/2, and our communication is quicker
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