Do Now: Examine the 2 pictures & describe the differences between them.

-What do you see?

A major change in the way the goods were produced, production went from the slow, costly methods of making goods by hand in the home…to…fast, cheaper methods of making goods by machines in a factory.

Revolution* – a major change in a society, usually an improvement

Agricultural Revolution – a major change in the way people farmed in the early 1700’s

Enclosure – small strips of land were made into larger fields, making farming more efficient.

Tenant Farmers – poor people who rented farmland from the owners of the enclosures

Crop rotation – the practice of planting a different crop in a different field each year

Read the Handout – the Agricultural Revolution

Underline & highlight the important information

Fill out the graphic organizer on the back explaining the Causes of the Agricultural RevolutionDevelopments of the Agricultural Revolutionthe + & - effects of the Agricultural Revolution