IR1+B+Notes

- The guild system→ conservative, passed down skills - Rural society → families farmed - Women and men relatively equal economic partners - Slaves in America that produced cotton was essential in industrial rev - Ppl in rural areas produce goods and sell it to merchants (proto-industrial) - Parliament force ppl to be farmers or workers→ produced source of labor - Gradual abolition of restrictions on production and commerce - Improvements in transportation and agricultural change - Accumulation of money/capital - Domestic Manufacture→ making goods in home - Invention of machines - Guilds regulate quality and price of goods - During French Rev guilds were outlawed (1789)→ step toward economic freedom - New farming method→ crop rotation, enclosure - Agricultural revolution→ rotated crops b/w fields, used fertilizer, better care of his livestock - More demand→ # of ppl growing - Natural resources/new energy source - Forcing rural farmers in urban → urbanization - The presence of slaves o Indentured servants→ pay debt for coming to the New World (low wages work for a certain time) o Serfdom→ agreed to work for a fixed term for wages, had legal rights