WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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strengthening the importance of the family farm.
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breaking large estates into smaller farms.
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encouraging city dwellers to return to farming.
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producing more food with fewer workers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -what is an agricultural improvement of the 1600’s? fertilizer from livestock.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the Second Agricultural Revolution, humans industrialized farming to produce greater crop yields with fewer workers. This allowed larger cities to form and paved the way for the First Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -Processes like Lord Townshend’s crop rotation and Bakewell’s inbreeding methods allowed for increase in food production; further with all the extra crops, inventions such as the ‘Spinning Jenny’ and the Cotton Gin allowed for the replacement of agricultural workers because machines could do more of the work.
Detailed explanation-4: -For many years the agricultural revolution in England was thought to have occurred because of three major changes: the selective breeding of livestock; the removal of common property rights to land; and new systems of cropping, involving turnips and clover.