IR+Toondoo+D+Staci+Terry+Minhee

media type="custom" key="2776525"

Chapter 1 (causes) • Small work forces (individuality) • Urban: skilled workers worked at a variety of trades by producing HIGH quality goods • Majority of the population lived in an rural area • In 1750 mainly rural societies with families and paid laborers or slaves living in country side • Woman and men equal economic partners (as well children helped) • Some had slavery or indentured servants • Atlantic Economy exported cotton, tobacco, sugar, rum and tea or sometimes human cargo • 1350 to 1750 cottage industry or putting out system activate: rural household manufactured goods at home with simple tools selling their products made by simple tools at home; entrepreneurs accumulated the capital that would allow them to eventually build factories in Britain – woman and children worked • this homemade productions gave names to traditional craft production located in town • Agricultural revolution: began to allow farmers to feed growing numbers of people o New food crops, many of them from the Americas o new forage crops produced more food per acre o allowed farmers to raise more cattle for meat and milk • Before 1760 many artesian produced their work in their homes (wealthy) • Woman had a hard time learning trades • They weren’t gifted (weren’t allowed) • However they were punished if they rejected their circumstances • Most made by hand • Rural revolution o Only wealthy landowners could afford to invest in new crops and new farming methods o enclosed their own land and common land to apply new scientific farming methods o forced their former tenants to become sharecroppers or landless laborers, or to migrate to the cities. • Guild- rich union merchant and craftsmen Rural rev - farmers became a lower class - Practice of enclosure from landowners Enclosure for cattle and also hired men When landowners did things with own usage - Germany Crop rotation fed more and made more profit - Started hiring workers for money o Women not allowed