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AGE OF INDUSTRY

AGE OF INDUSTRY. CHAPTER 9.1. The Way of Life. Prior to the Industrial Revolution people relied mainly on farming to make a living People planted, harvested fields, hoped for good weather and lived under the threat of disease Life expectancy was around 40

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AGE OF INDUSTRY

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  1. AGE OF INDUSTRY CHAPTER 9.1

  2. The Way of Life • Prior to the Industrial Revolution people relied mainly on farming to make a living • People planted, harvested fields, hoped for good weather and lived under the threat of disease • Life expectancy was around 40 • People lived in small villages and very few traveled outside their village

  3. Village Life • Nearly everyone worked the fields, wealthy people rented their land to the poor • Land was not fenced in and was used by all • Villages had to be self-sufficient • Poor shared their living space with their animals • Village work was shared by all family members

  4. Early Industry • Wool was second to farming in GB • During the 1700’s the demand for wool increased leading many merchants to hire people to work out of their house to produce woolens • Domestic system: early industrial labor where people produced goods at home • The size of livestock began to increase

  5. Mining Coal • Many coal mines laid under the fields • People sometimes worked in the mines and worked the fields during the harvest • People would take their extra earnings to the city to buy what they could not produce themselves (guns, furniture, clothing) • New developments would lead to sudden change for these people

  6. Vocabulary • Enclosure movement: the trend by large landowners to gradually fence and include public and private land in their own estate • Capital: money available to invest in business • Entrepreneur: person who undertakes risk to invest in a business • Factory system: method of production in which goods are made by workers and machines in locations outside the home (factories)

  7. WHY ENGLAND • The enclosure movement • New methods of farming • Capital: people had money because of their large scale farming, overseas commerce and the slave trade • Natural resources: water, coal, and iron • Large labor supply: more people, longer lives, people wanted to invest to make more money

  8. Why is it necessary to create new inventions. In your life today what is one invention that would be impossible for you to live without? Of the inventions on your timeline what do you feel was the most important and why?

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