 Britain Leads the Way Chapter 5 Section 2

Why Britain?  Natural Resources  Natural ports  Rivers  Rivers allowed canals, which allowed trade  A LOT OF COAL  A LOT OF IRON

Textile Industry  What is the textile industry?  Discuss with your neighbor

Textile Industry  1 st place of Industrial Revolution in Britain  India’s cotton industry spurred England’s  Putting-out system =raw cotton was distributed to peasant families who spun it and wove it  Production very slow

Textile Industry  Inventions  Flying shuttle =weavers to work extremely fast  Spinning Jenny =to keep up with the flying shuttle, spun threads at the same time  Cotton Gin 1793 =Eli Whitney, took seeds from cotton very fast

Textile Industry  Where did the peasants go after the development of these inventions?  Discuss with your neighbor

Transportation Boom  Roads for faster movement  Canals for import and export of coal and raw materials  Steam Locomotives for long distance movement  BOOM