Industrial Revolution

Shawn Roe

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What factor led to the Industrial Revolution?

Factor 1Industrial Revolution

• New Crops(from the New World): Corn and Potatoes

• New Farming Methods

Factor 2The Domestic System/Cottage industry

• Small Scale Industry (done in people’s homes)• Mostly involving the production of textiles

(cloth) - mostly made of wool

Factor 3New Economic Conditions

• Increase of trade and demand for manufactured products

• New Theory – Capitalism

Question Slide

• Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain?

Reason 1Abundant Natural Resources and Food

• More food because of the Agricultural Revolution

• Lots of coal and iron deposits• Waterways• Britain had colonies that supplied lots of

additional raw materials such as India supplied cotton

Reason 2Large Labor Supply

• Big Growth in population!• Agricultural Revolution caused lots of people

to move to the cities looking for jobs

Reason 3Britain’s Favorable Government

• Parliament passed laws to promote investment in businesses

Reason 4Britain’s Prosperous Middle Class

• Entrepreneurs begin to invest in business and open up factories and start corporations

• Successful merchants - sell the products throughout Britain and the rest of the world

Reason 5New Inventions

• The Flying Shuttle (1733 - John Kay)• Spinning Jenny (1764 - James Hargreaves)• The Water Frame (1769 - Richard Arkwright)• The “Spinning Mule” (1779 - Samuel

Crompton)• An Effective Steam Engine (1882 - James Watt)• Power Loom (1787 - Edmund Cartwright)• The Cotton Gin (1793 - Eli Whitney)

Definition slides

• Textiles- any cloth and goods produced by weaving, knitting, and felting

• Industry-any general business activity; commercial enterprise

• Manufacturing-to make or produce by hand or machinery, especially on a large scale

• Urban-living in a city• living in the country

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• Capitalism-an economic system in which investment and ownership is made and maintained by private individuals or corporations.

• Entrepeneur-an employer of productive labor• Labor-a job or task done or to be done