1. R15 Industrial Revolution Chp 25 Sec 1 p. 717-722
Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain?

2. Preconditions: Labor Force Money capital to build machines
Raw Materials
Efficient Farms

3. Labor Force
Domestic System: 1700s system where merchants hired workers to produce goods in their own homes.

4. Labor Force
Enclosure Movement: Parliament passed laws that allowed landowners to take over and fence off private and common lands.

5. Labor Force
Entrepreneurs: middle and upper class people organized and managed the country’s growing industries.

6. Money capital to build machines
The growing upper class (aristocracy) will invest in labor, machines, and raw materials.

7. Raw Materials
Harbors and a large network of rivers that flowed year round provided power to developing industries and transportation routes to raw materials and finished goods.

8. Raw Materials
Britain had a huge supply of iron and coal the principal raw material of the Industrial Revolution: to build machinery and fuel industry.

9. Efficient farms to feed a new group of workers
Agriculture underwent a revolution that improved the quality, quantity, and profitability of farm goods.