• 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?