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Dawn of the Industrial Revolution

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Life Changes As Industry Spreads

• In 1750 most people worked the land with hand
  made tools.
• By 1850 the Industrial Revolution began to push
  out the old way of doing things.
• Villages grew into industrial towns and cities.
• Trains, steamships, and the telegraph moved
  people and ideas faster.
• By 1855 the sewing machines, antiseptics,
  anesthesia, and the speed of light had been
  discovered.

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Why would the population increase so much?
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Agriculture Spurs Industry

• The Dutch first improved outdated farming
  methods.
• Built dikes to reclaim land from the sea,
  combined smaller fields to gain higher yields,
  and used fertilizer.
• British farmers built upon Dutch innovations.
• Crops were rotated to build back nutrients lost
  in the soil. Soils were mixed to grow more crops.
• Lord Charles Townsend urged famers to grow
  turnips and other vegetables that would replenish
  the soil.
• Jethro Tull invented the seed drill which
  replaced the practice of scattering seeds by hand.

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Agriculture Spurs Industry

• Enclosure- rich landowners taking over and
  consolidating land once owned by peasants
• The British Parliament passed laws to help this
  occur.
• Farm output and profits increased which led to a
  population boom. Farm workers and poor farmers
  were made obsolete by these large, efficient
  farms. These poor workers moved to cities and
  became factory workers.

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New Technology Becomes Key

• Coal was a vital power source used to develop the
  steam engine.
• Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine to pump
  water out of mines. James Watt restructured the
  steam engine to make it more efficient. The
  invention later became the power source of the
  Industrial Revolution.
• Coal was used to smelt iron, or separate it from
  ore.
• Smelting created cheaper priced and higher
  quality iron.

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ACE Writing-Regular

• What new technologies helped trigger the
  Industrial Revolution?

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ACE Writing-Honors

• How did the agricultural revolution contribute to
  population growth?