Industrial Revolution

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Industrial Revolution
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Revolution in industry and energyBritain 1780s
- 1850
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Causes

• Demand for goods
• Agricultural improvements
• Free-Trade
• Transportation
• Factories
• Banking system

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Textiles

• Demand
• Machinery
• Factories

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Energy

• Coal replaces wood
• Iron industry
• Steam engine Watt

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James Watt
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Ive been working on the RR

• Railroads
• 1830 The Rocket
• Changed freight
• Construction society
• Passengers

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Continental Europe

• Slow spread from Britain
• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• United States

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Agents of industrialization

• British technicians
• Entrepreneurs
• Governments
• Tariffs
• Railroads
• Economic Nationalism

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Capital and Labor

• New social relationships
• Golden age of Middle Class
• Factory workers
• Class-consciousness
• Role of women

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Contrasts