What is the Industrial Revolution

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What is the Industrial Revolution?

• How did it begin?

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I. Beginning of the Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution first
• Wealthy buy up land
• Developed enclosures
• Experimentation seed drill
• Crop Rotation rotation of crops depending on
  soil and nutrient needs
• Selective livestock breeding

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B. Britain makes the perfect site

• Large population of workers
• Extensive natural resources
• Expanding economy
• Willing investors
• 5. Factors of Production resources needed to
  produce goods and services required for the
  industrial revolution

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C. Industrialization

• - the process of developing machine production of
  goods

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II. Inventions drive the Revolution

• - Some one would have to make these machines
  required for production

Inventor
Invention
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A. Textile Industry

• Spinning Jenny
• Spinning Mule
• Cotton gin
• These are big machines so where are we going to
  put these large inventions made for producing
  things????

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B. Transportation

• James Watt and Matthew Boulton
• Entrepreneur a person who organizes manages and
  takes on the risks of a business
• Steam Engine
• Boats
• Railroad Locomotive

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- After advances in the textile industry and
transportation, how had life in Britain changed?

• - Why were entrepreneurs so important to the
  industrial revolution?