Learn It Part 2
Here is the excerpt again:
The 18th century can be categorized as a “revolutionary time.” Political revolutions had brought new governments to the United States, France and parts of Latin America. At the same time, a different type of revolution took place in Great Britain. The first type of revolution to take place was in agriculture. Wealthy landowners began buying up much of the land that village farmers once worked. They enclosed their land with fences or hedges. With larger land holdings, they could cultivate more land. The large landowners also experimented with new agricultural methods such as the seed drill and crop rotation. These new farming methods caused large increases in agricultural production.
Increased food supplies due to the agricultural revolution and better living conditions resulted in population growth. This increased population created a demand for more food and goods, such as cloth. Because of the enclosure movement, many farmers had lost their land and moved to the cities to become factory workers.
The events in the passage are placed in chronological order below. By looking at these events, you can analyze them by asking the “why” and “how” of the events, and ask if earlier events caused later events to occur.
| Event 1 | Political revolutions in the United States, France and Latin America / Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain. |
| Event 2 | Wealthy landowners buy up land from village farmers. |
| Event 3 | Wealthy landowners use fences and hedges to enclose the land (enclosure movement). |
| Event 4 | Wealthy landowners cultivate more land. |
| Event 5 | Wealthy landowners experiment with new farming methods. |
| Event 6 | Large increase in crop production. |
| Event 7 | Increased food supplies and better living conditions. |
| Event 8 | Population increases. |
| Event 9 | More demand for goods and services. |
| Event 10 | Farmers who lost land move to cities to become factory workers. |
Now click the boxes below to see if events occurred in a sequence without affecting each other, or had a cause-and-effect relationship.
Placing Events in Chronological Order
Looking for sequence or cause-and-effect text structures can help you determine the relationship between events. By placing the events in chronological order, you can logically determine if one event simply preceded or occurred independently from one another, or if one event actually caused later events to occur.
