• 10/14 Focus: – Starting around 1750, Europe experienced a
series of major changes that would contribute to the development of the Industrial Revolution.
– In the century that followed, dramatic changes took place in the ways people lived and worked
• Important Terms: – Factors of production, Agrarian Revolution,
enclosure
• Do Now: – Which revolution led to the development of
agriculture?
Industrial Revolution
Impact of the Agrarian Revolution
Industrial Revolution
• Period where the means of production of goods shifted:– from making things by
hand to making things with machines
– From use of human and animal power to use of steam power
– Began around 1750
Industrial Revolution
• Factors of Production
– Land• Natural Resources
– Labor • workers
– Capital• Money
Agrarian Revolution
• A first step towards Industrial Revolution
• Improvements and changes in farming methods lead to increased food production.
Agrarian Revolution
Agrarian Revoluti
on
Improvements in
Technology
Jethro Tull’s seed drill
Improved livestock breeding
Introduction of New Crops
Use of Fertilizers
Potatoes from the Americas
The Enclosure Movement
Landowners fenced off
lands
Replaced small farms with larger
fields
Jethro Tulls’ Seed Drill
Enclosure Movement Before After
Enclosure Movement
Agrarian Revolution
Increased Food
Production
Enclosure Movement
throws poor farmers off
lands
Population
increase
Farmers move to
cities
Increased source of labor for Industrial
Rev.
Closure
• How did the Agrarian Revolution of the 1700’s contribute to the Industrial Revolution?