Industrial Revolution History Alive slides
Pre-Industrial Revolution
Crop rotation
Agricultural Revolution Enclosure movement Crop rotation Seed drill: 1701 Old World: corn and potatoes More food/Livestock/more fertilizer
Domestic system
Cottage Industry Merchants plotted stages of production Early prelude to industrialization Model for early capitalism
Mercantilism Export rather than import Import raw materials/export finished products Regulation of trade and commerce Goods tightly regulated to keep prices up
Capitalism Great Britain moves toward free trade Private ownership Competition
factory
Textile/factory system Demand for more cloth increased need for efficiency (chart) Factories located near power/water at first
Effects of Factory System Division of labor Employers controlled all Cotton imports increased Price of yarn decreased End of cottage industry
Steam Engine 1790: James Watt River Water power no longer sufficient Water heated by coal Factories could be anywhere Mines freed of flooding potential
Making steel
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
Transportation Improvements steam engine Better roads Thomas Telford, John MacAdam Canals
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
Why England
Steam engine
Girls factory
Labor resistance
Overhead causes/effects