1. -Enclosure movement: Practice of fencing or enclosing common lands into individual holdings.
-crop rotation: the practice of alternationg crops of different kinds to preserve soil fertility.
-industrial revolution: terms for changes beginning in the 1700s, when powerdriven machines began to do much of the work that people had done before.
-factors of production: Basic resources for industrialization, such as necessary land, capital, and labor.
-mechanization: use of automatic machinery to increase production.
-factory system: Production of goods in a factory through the use of machines and a large number of workers.
-vulcanization: Process of treating rubber to make it more useful.
2. -Jethro Tull: Landowner was concerned about the amount of seed wasted by hand-scattering it over the fields.
-Richard Arkwright: Invented a way to drive the machine by waterpower.
-Eli Whitney: invented the cotton gin, a machine that could clean much more cotton in a day than hand laborers could.
-James Watt: studied and improved on Newcomen’s machine.
-Henry Bessemer: working independently, he developed what came to be known as the Bessemer process- a cheaper and more efficient method of making steel.
-Robert Fulton: American engineer who was the first to build a profitable steamboat.
-Samuel Morse: Sent an eletric current through a wire, causing a machine at the other end to click.
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