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Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution. History Alive slides. Agricultural Revolution. Enclosure movement Crop rotation Seed drill: 1701 Old World: corn and potatoes More food/Livestock/more fertilizer. Cottage Industry. Merchants plotted stages of production Early prelude to industrialization

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Industrial Revolution

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  1. Industrial Revolution History Alive slides

  2. Agricultural Revolution • Enclosure movement • Crop rotation • Seed drill: 1701 • Old World: corn and potatoes • More food/Livestock/more fertilizer

  3. Cottage Industry • Merchants plotted stages of production • Early prelude to industrialization • Model for early capitalism

  4. Mercantilism • Export rather than import • Import raw materials/export finished products • Regulation of trade and commerce • Goods tightly regulated to keep prices up

  5. Capitalism • Great Britain moves toward free trade • Private ownership • Competition

  6. Textile/factory system • Demand for more cloth increased need for efficiency • (chart) • Factories located near power/water at first

  7. Effects of Factory System • Division of labor • Employers controlled all • Cotton imports increased • Price of yarn decreased • End of cottage industry

  8. Steam Engine • 1790: James Watt • River Water power no longer sufficient • Water heated by coal • Factories could be anywhere • Mines freed of flooding potential

  9. Iron and Coal • Painting: Kroyer, 1885 • Need for iron increases: war, agricultural tools, machinery, railroad lines • Need for coal increases • Note: Britain produced more iron than all other nations together

  10. Transportation • Improvements steam engine • Better roads • Thomas Telford, John MacAdam • Canals

  11. Effects of Industrial Revolution • Poor lost farms/became wage earners • Large land owners increased power • More food available/fewer peope starved/population increased • Living conditions improved

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