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Pg.550 #1 & 2
Posted on 2008-08-18 by ed607978

#1

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.

#2

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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