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

2. 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
_______________________________
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3. Yorkshire Dales National Park, in Yorkshire, England.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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.)

8. 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?