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Industrialization #1: England’s #1Journal: What would your life be like
without a cell phone? Describe 3 specific ways in which your life would be different if
cell phones did notnot exist.
Objectives
• How does the agricultural revolution help lead to industrialization?
• Why does England industrialize first?
Agricultural Revolution: changes in farming• Through 1700s nearly everyone was
a farmer BUT farmers will begin to make enclosures (fences) around land1. Farmers will gain larger pieces of
land – kicking smaller farmers out2. Farmers will develop more
efficient ways to grow crops
This leads to ….• Surplus: more than enough–Surplus of food – more ppl will live
• Fewer farmers
Industrial Revolution (mid 1700s): change from making goods by hand to making them by machine
England will industrialize 1st b/c
1. Natural resources: things found in earth–Coal – fuel – Iron – building
material–Rivers – transport
items & water power –Harbors – ocean
access for transportation abroad
2. Large population – workers3. Entrepreneurs – people willing to take risks
to get a large profit4. Capital - $$$ - banks are willing to lend to
entrepreneurs to start new businesses
5. Inventions:– Flying shuttle: weave
fabric – Spinning jenny: spin
into thread– Cotton gin: cleans
cotton, invented by Eli Whitney
Industrialization will change society
forever! Do you make anything by hand any more?
FR #24: pg 228
• Pg. 228– Geography questions, answer 1 and 2– Section 1 Assessment, answer #2 only• Copy the chartCopy the chart and use Section 1 to fill in
the blanks • If you finish early, see me for Indust. #2• Quiz will be in the last 10 minutes of class
Return #16-21 = 20 points
• Graded:– #18: vocab w/pix (5 points)– #19: book assign w/ sub (5 points) – #21: worth 10 points, answer 12 essential
questions for benchmark review
• Don’t miss out on these easy points!