Industrial Revolution 2

A detailed Summary of Industrial Revolution 2

The Industrial revolution began in the early 1800s. The

industrial revolution could not have happened if the

agricultural revolution had not preceded it.

During the Agricultural Revolution several

inventions that reduced the need for man power were

invented. Two of those inventions were the Jethro Tull

seeding drill and the cotton gin. The seeding drill planted

seeds in rows which made the crops easier to manage and

harvest. The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli

Whitney, it took the seeds out of the cotton. The cotton gin

made it so that the work that previously needed to be done

by fifty men could now be done by one. An idea of the

agricultural revolution was crop rotation. Crop rotation was

switching the crops into different fields each year which

allowed farmers to produce 25 % more crops and more

During the agricultural revolution population went

up and less people were needed to work on the farms.

There were a lot of people that needed jobs but there were

not a lot of jobs for people on farms so the people turned to

the cities. The time when people went into the cities looking

because they regulated and limited several things such as

Since there were factories everywhere, there were

dreadful. The air was full of dust and other things that

called laissez fair had no governmental controls over the

Laissez Faire translates to "let do." The economy

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