1. Industrial Revolution:
Britain Leads the Way & Early Hardships

2. I. Why Britain Natural resources iron & coal Enclosure movement
Technology
Economic conditions (entrepreneurs had $$ for investment b/c of exploration)
Pop. Explosion
Stable gov’t, strong military
Religious values

3. II. First Factories Iron needed for machines, coal better fuel source
Putting Out System took time & kept prices up industrial revolution textile industry.asx
Demand grew & entrepreneurs invested in new machines (Kay’s flying shuttle, Hargreaves’ spinning jenny, Arkwright’s waterwheel)
New machines were big & expensive, entrepreneurs built shed industrial revolution factory work video clip.asx

4. Steam engine – 1st used to pump water out of mines
Flying Shuttle
Spinning Jenny
Waterwheel

5. III. Transportation Revolution
Production increased, owners needed to get goods out quicker
Turnpikes, canals, better bridges, locomotive, steam boat

6. IV. The New City
Rapid urbanization, tenements/slums, soaring population growth
No running water, sewage systems, cholera

8. V. The Factory System Rigid schedule, 12-16 hours, no safety devices
No health care or insurance
Women were preferred, easier to manage & cheaper
Children were hired and was an accepted practice (small hands & bodies – changed spools in textile mills) orphans sometimes paid in food

9. VI. Working Class vs. Middle Class
Artisans resisted new machines, took away jobs
Methodism spread (John Wesley) 1st Sunday schools, offered hope
Growing middle class from merchants who invested in factories, inventors