Factors that Set the Stage for the Industrial Revolution 1650-1800 LEADING OFF Factors that Set the Stage for the Industrial Revolution 1650-1800

1. ____________________________________ ___________________ —Wealthy landowners buy, enclose land once open/owned by villagers 1) Former small landowners, peasants, rural laborers lose rights  MOVE TO CITIES Enclosures allow experimentation with new agricultural methods __________________: Breaks cycle of failed harvest every 8-9 years ______________________________ _________________ (Potatoes, turnips, peas, beans, clovers, grasses) mean new diets and better grazing _______________________________ If only there were some sort of video I could show about my invention!

Yorkshire Dales National Park, in Yorkshire, England.

2. ____________________________________ Traditional Barriers to Growth: ____________________________________ See Ag Rev notes New inoculations, plague mostly gone 1720 Relative period of peace Famine in one region not devastating, can move food Results Market for goods – UP Wages for workers - DOWN

3. __________________________________ Called Domestic___________________ System OR _______________ Industry Merchant gives wool to be spun, thread to be woven, to countryside _______________________________ Effects Rural families get some money/supplement income Friction between merchant capitalists/rural laborers ________________________ in much greater numbers ___________________________________ 1) Working harder, less leisure time

4. ____________________________________ Adam Smith: ______________________ ___________________________________ Laissez-faire: Limit gov’t role in econ Benefit countries (more $ overall) AND consumers (make better product) Guilds Huge in 1600s Smith: GUILDS HURT NATURAL ______________________________ ________________________________, argue for their interests, not mechanization

Possible AP Question: How Did Agricultural Production Increase? How Did It Affect Peasants? Why did the European population rise dramatically in the 18th century? How does this fit with the Battle of Chapter 18? (Medicine, mortality, family life, etc.)

Possible AP Question: How and why did rural industry intensify in the eighteenth century? What effect did the Industrial Revolution have on the “putting-out” system? Why did guilds become controversial in the 18th century? How did economic liberalism affect opinions about guilds?