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Title: Industrial Revolution


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Industrial Revolution
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Agricultural Revolution
  • Enclosures Larger fields. Harvest methods
  • Seed Drill Instead of throwing seeds
  • Crop Rotation Improved on three field system.
    Planted different crops on the same field on
    different seasons. Food output increases causes
    an increase in population.

3
England
  • Large working population
  • Natural resources (iron, coal, rivers, harbors,
    water power)
  • Business investment
  • Politically stable
  • High factors of production
  • Industrialization process of developing machine
    production of goods

4
Textile industry
  • 1733 Flying Shuttle doubled work a weaver could
    do
  • 1764 Spinning Jenny allowed one spinner to work
    eight threads at a time
  • 1769 Water frame used water power to drive
    spinning wheels
  • 1787 Power Loom Sped up weaving
  • Cotton Gin Eli Whitney. (Cotton production went
    from 1.5 million to 85 million in 20 years)

5
Transportation
  • Steam engine Watt
  • Steamboat Fulton
  • Roads Adams
  • Railroads
  • increased the growth of industry
  • created new jobs
  • Boosted food industry. Longer distances
  • Rural people could take city jobs

6
Industrialization
  • Lives change
  • people could make more money in cities
  • Urbanization of European cities with 100,000
    people went from 22 to 47 in 50 years

7
Changes
  • Sanitation no garbage pick up, no drains in the
    streets
  • Working 14/6, injuries, lighting, illness
  • Time
  • Classes
  • middle new, business men,
  • working machines began to replace them

8
Positives
  • Short term
  • more jobs
  • increase in the nations wealth
  • technological progress
  • increased standards of living
  • more people could have goods
  • PROVIDED HOPE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVES
  • Long term
  • luxuries become common possessions
  • suburbs grow
  • standard of living
  • workers win shorter hours, better conditions,
    higher wages
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