Industrial Revolution and Irish Potato Famine set 1
Manufacture
– To make or produce goods, usually in a factory.
Reform
– To make changes to improve something, like laws or systems.
Entrepreneur
– A person who starts and runs a business.
Innovation
– A new idea, method, or invention that improves something.
Persuade
– To convince someone to believe or do something.
Agrarian
– Related to farming or the use of land for growing crops.
Subsistence Farming
– Farming only enough to feed the farmer and their family, not to sell.
Common Land
– Land shared by a community for grazing animals or farming.
Enclosure Movement
– When common land was fenced off and turned into private property.
Domestic System / Putting-out System ]
– Making goods at home rather than in a factory.
Seed Drill
– A tool that plants seeds in neat rows to grow crops more efficiently.
4 Crop-Rotation
– Rotating four different crops on the same land to keep the soil healthy.
Urbanization
– The growth of cities as more people move from the countryside.
Mechanization
– Using machines to do work that people used to do by hand.
Flying Shuttle
Spinning Jenny
– A machine that allowed one worker to spin many threads at once.
Textile
– Cloth or fabric made by weaving, knitting, or other methods.