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Economic, Social, and Political Change Worksheet

Agricultural Revolution

Respond to each of the following questions in 2 or 3 sentences:

1. What are the three most important factors that contributed to the agricultural revolution in Europe? The factors include warmer temperatures, the three-field system and better farming equipment. In which, contributed to the evolution of European living during medieval time.

2. How did the agricultural revolution change European society? Provide an example.

The new found, more productive way of farming in Europe reduced the need of manual laboring workers. This eliminated many jobs on farm lands, yet created coil mining jobs to help power the machines used on the farm.

Industrial Revolution

Respond to each of the following questions in 2 or 3 sentences:

1. What are the three most important factors that contributed to the industrial revolution in Europe?

Large population, capital, and people with scientific knowledge and entrepreneurial skills were among the social and economic factors that helped make the Industrial Revolution possible.

3. Describe working conditions in factories and mines between 1800 and 1850. What was life like for a typical worker? Reference at least one primary source to support your response.

-Mechanization deprived skilled craftworkers of control of the workplace. In Great Britain, France, and Germany, groups of textile workers destroyed machines in protest. Machine-breakers tyrannized parts of Great Britain from 1811 to 1816 in an attempt to frighten masters. The movement was known as Luddism after its mythical leader, Ned Ludd. Workers damaged and destroyed property for more control over the work process, but such destruction met with severe repression. From the 1820s to the 1850s,