Overview:

• Industrial Revolution: Greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England in the mid-1700s

• Agricultural Revolution: Inventions and innovations in agriculture

Agricultural Revoltion:

• Enclosure movement caused small farmers to be forced out of farming

• Crop Rotation created more food for more people, yet continued to force out small farmers

England:

• Large population

• Lots of natural resources

• Had a large economy

• A large banking system

• Political Stability

• Factors of Production:

  • Land, Labor, + Capital

Inventions:

• Flying Shuttle - John Kay

• Foot Treadle - I.M. Singer

• Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves

• Water Frame - Richard Arkwright

• Steam Engine - James Watt

• Steamboats - Robert Fulton

• The McAdam Railroad (Created Better Roads) - John McAdams

• Steam-Driven Locomotives - Richard Trevithick

• Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney

• Seed Drill - Jethro Toll