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.

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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