1. Industrial Revolution
Greatly increased output of machine-made goods (1700s)
Agricultural Revolution
- Enclosure movement
- Jethro Tull’s seed drill (p. 633)
- Crop rotation
- Scientific breeding
(lambs 18 – 50 lbs. in 86 years)
> Results: increased food & population

2. Great Britain’s Advantages
- Water & coal to power machines
- Iron ore to construct machines, tools, & buildings
- Rivers for inland transportation
- Harbors for its merchant ships
- Wealth to invest in new machines
- Highly developed banking system
- Excess labor force
- Stable government

3. Technological Advances
- Textile industry
> Flying Shuttle increased speed thread could be woven into cloth (1733)
> Spinning Jenny increased speed cotton could be spun into thread (1764)
> Factories built by rivers to use water power to run machines (1769)
> Cotton Gin increased speed seeds could be removed from cotton (1793)
> Steam engine allowed factories to be placed anywhere there was coal (1774

4. - Transportation > Steamships invented (1807)
> Canals & macadam roads (early 1800s)
> Railroad (1825)
*aided industrial growth
*created jobs for r.r. workers & miners
*aided agricultural and fishing industries
*aided travel for jobs & leisure

5. The Rocket (1829)