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| Large fields are shared by peasants. This system was in use until the enclosure movement. |
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| Painting that depicts the hardships of workers who have to live off of the scraps of others. |
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| Dutch engineer who went to England to teach them how to reclaim land from swamps. |
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| Man obsessed with the powers of turnips. Used turnips to replenish the nitrogen in the soil, allowing other crops to grow. |
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| Inventor who produced the drill which made plowing and sowing seeds easier. |
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| Movement that attempted to privatize all farms rather than continue using the open field system that was in effect. |
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| proletarianization of farming |
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| The mass conversion of small peasant farmers into landless rural wage workers |
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| Used industrial production to create a new form of labor. Same thing as the domestic system. |
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| Also called the cottage system, a early version of the industrial revolution. Referred to the establishment of regular factories designed for the production of goods. |
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| System in which a merchant provides manufacturers with raw materials, the manufacturers make the goods and send them back to the merchants. |
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| An unmarried woman who must spin for a living. |
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| Break from work that workers in the putting out observed “religiously.” |
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| The economic theory that there are a limited amount of resources in the world and a government must do everything in its power to acquire the highest percentage of these resources. |
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| Acts that required British goods to be transported on British ships. |
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| People of European descent who were born in Spanish colonies. |
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| Racially mixed children of Creoles of European descent and the native Indians |
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| Form of labor in which people work in exchange for periodical food, shelter, and money. |
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| Man who believed in the free enterprise economic system. Also outlined the three duties of a government. |
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