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Industrial Revolution

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Industrial Revolution

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    1. Industrial Revolution

    2. Beginnings Industrial Revolution - Increased output of machine-made goods from hand-made goods that began in England during the 18th century

    3. Beginnings Wealthy landowners bought up all the land and closed their land off. This is called the enclosure movement.

    4. Beginnings 2 results of the enclosure movement: Small farmers moved to the city Landowners started to experiment with new methods All of this is the Agriculture Revolution

    5. Beginnings New inventions for agriculture is Jethro Tull’s seed drill which put seeds in the ground in a neat rows

    6. Beginnings Another new method is crop rotation where farmers changed crops of a field every year to add or subtract soil nutrients Livestock breeders also improved by breeding only the best stock together The weight of lamb increased from18 to 50 pounds during this time

    7. Beginnings Britain started to industrialize first for 4 reasons: Many natural resources Highly developed banking system Political stability Had all factors of production: land, labor, and capital

    8. Beginnings The first industry to be industrialized was the textile or clothes industry

    9. Beginnings Several inventions modernized the textile industry, especially the cotton industry

    10. Beginnings John Kay – Flying Shuttle = doubled work of a weaver

    11. Beginnings Spinners could not keep up with weavers = James Hargreaves – Spinning Jenny

    12. Beginnings Richard Arkwright created the water frame to move those new inventions

    13. Beginnings Samuel Crompton’s spinning mule combined everything

    14. Beginnings All these inventions were huge = factories were created to house them They then put the factories by water to move the water wheels

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