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Industrial Revolution and Irish Potato Famine set 1

1.

Manufacture

– To make or produce goods, usually in a factory.

2.

Reform

– To make changes to improve something, like laws or systems.

3.

Entrepreneur

– A person who starts and runs a business.

4.

Innovation

– A new idea, method, or invention that improves something.

5.

Persuade

– To convince someone to believe or do something.

6.

Agrarian

– Related to farming or the use of land for growing crops.

7.

Subsistence Farming

– Farming only enough to feed the farmer and their family, not to sell.

8.

Common Land

– Land shared by a community for grazing animals or farming.

9.

Enclosure Movement

– When common land was fenced off and turned into private property.

10.

Domestic System / Putting-out System ]

– Making goods at home rather than in a factory.

11.

Seed Drill

– A tool that plants seeds in neat rows to grow crops more efficiently.

12.

4 Crop-Rotation

– Rotating four different crops on the same land to keep the soil healthy.

13.

Urbanization

– The growth of cities as more people move from the countryside.

14.

Mechanization

– Using machines to do work that people used to do by hand.

15.

Flying Shuttle

  1. – A machine that made weaving cloth faster.
16.

Spinning Jenny

– A machine that allowed one worker to spin many threads at once.

17.

Textile

– Cloth or fabric made by weaving, knitting, or other methods.