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The Industrial Revolution. Where did the Industrial Revolution originate?. England. The Industrial Revolution began with this Revolution. .
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Since the Neolithic Revolution people had to learn how to plant seeds to grow food. They simply did this by scattering seed. In 1701, JethroTull invented a machine that pushed seeds deep into the soil in well spaced rows. What was the machine?
In England, wealthy farmers began buying land from small farmers, then benefited from the increase in efficiency by farming huge tracts of land. What was this known as?
One of the major industries that was born during the Industrial Revolution was the clothing industry. In 1764, James Hargreaves invented this machine, it could spin 8 or more spools of yarn at a time.
The Spinning Jenny allowed workers to spin yarn at a much faster pace than using the spinning wheel. Another process that was speeded up was removing seeds from cotton. The machine that made this process faster was this
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin increased the demand in the American South for
Before the Industrial Revolution, people made most of their goods by hand, and many of them worked from their homes. Once the industrial Revolution began, many people began working in these
With the factories, many people began to move from the country to the cities. What is the population increase in cities known as?
The growth of the city populations led to the opportunity of many types of small businesses to accommodate everybody. This led to an increase in the amount of people that entered this social class
Adam Smith’s writings about the benefits of private business, the role of market competition, and entrepreneurial abilities
The Wealth of Nations supported an free market economic that includes private ownership of the means of production, creation of goods or services for profit or income, the accumulation of capital, competitive markets, voluntary exchange, and wage labor. What was this economic system called?
an individual with the drive and ambition to combine land, labor, and capital resources to produce goods or offer services.
One reason that the Industrial Revolution originated was that it was rich in natural resources. What are a couple of the resources in England?
Who was the person who was developed an inexpensive process for the mass production of steel?
Another reason that the Industrial revolution began in England was because of this invention
The Steam engine would have a major impact on the industrialized world in the ability of people to travel from one place to another. What is this known as?
Those that entered the middle class saw an increase in their standards of living. However, not all people shared in this. What class of people continued to struggle?
Working conditions in factories were often unsafe. Diseases spread quickly, fires that were broke out were often deadly, pollution was awful. Wages were low also because men had to compete with both women and
Children of working class families often had to get a job to help out their families. They did not have time to play or go here
Back in Europe, the working class decided to start standing up for themselves. They began to demand that changes be made. They wanted better pay, or wages. They wanted fewer hours each day. They wanted better working conditions. They also wanted to be paid if they were hurt on the job. To push for these rights they began to form these
If businesses would not meet Labor Union demands for worker rights and increased wages, they would threaten to do this to shut down production
