| A | B |
|---|
| Agricultural Revolution | changes that took place in Agriculture in Great Britain in the early 1700's; farmers adopted new ideas about growing crops, introduced machinery to farming and were able to produce more food with less labor |
| Enclosure Movement | large landowners rapidly expanded their properties by enclosing or fensing off the common land - forcing the small farmers off of the land and into cities looking for work |
| invented seed drill | Jethro Tull |
| invented horse drawn hoe | Jethro Tull |
| planting turnips and clover on the resting field | Charles Townshend |
| invented the reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| Domestic system | work done in the home or in small workplaces, mostly by hand |
| Cottage industry | work done in the home or in small workplaces, mostly by hand |
| Factory System | large number of laborers in a centralized location and the use of step by step manufacturing |
| Assembly Line | a grouping of machines, other equipment, and workers arranged so that work passes from one to another in direct line until the finished product has been assembled |
| Mass-production | turning out a large qualtity of a product |
| Flying Shuttle | doubled the speed of weaving |
| Spinning Jenny | spin or make thread faster, could spin 8-20 threads at once |
| Water Frame | used waterpower to run spinning machines instead of hand labor, could spin 48-300 threads |
| Cotton Gin | separated cotton fibers from the seed |
| Steamboat | first commerically successful steamboat, increased speed of transportation on rivers and ocean |
| Steam Engine | New source of power allowed for factories in many locations |
| Steam Locomotive | Faster land transportation |
| Hard Surfaced Roads | Faster land transportation in all kinds of weather |
