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Enclosure Movement: Practive of fencing or enclosing common lands into individual holdings.
Crop Rotation: The practice of alternating crops of different kinds to preserve soil fertility.
Industrial Revolution: Term on behalf of changes beginning in the 1700s, when power driven machines began to do much of the work that people had done before.
Factors of Production: Basic resources on behalf of industrialization, such as necessary land, capital, as well as labor.
Mechanization: Basic resources on behalf of industrialization, such as necessary land, capital, as well as labor.
Factory System: Production of goods in a factory through the utilize of machines as well as a large number of workers.
Vulcanization: Process of treating rubber to manufacture it more useful.
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Jethro Tull: Invented a seed drill that made it possible to plant seeds in straight rows. Also made a horse-drawn hoe to dig up weeds between the rows as well as ruin soil before planting.
Richard Arkwright: Invented a way to drive the spinning “jenny” by waterpower.
Eli Whitney: Invented the cotton gin.
James Watt: Studied as well as improved Newcomen’s steam engine.
Henry Bessemer: Developed the “Bessemer process” which is a cheaper as well as more efficient method of making steel.
Robert Fulton: First to build profitable steamboat.
Samuel Morse: Invented a new form of communication, a telegraph.
Cotton Gin; Eli Whitney
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