1. Origins of the Industrial Revolution

2. Life Before Industrialization
Small Agricultural Communities
Rural Communities
Self Sustaining

3. Agricultural Revolution
Changes in Agriculture
Enclosure Movement-Practice of Fencing off land into individual holdings
Jethro Tull invented a seed drill that made it possible to farm straight rows of crops
Crop Rotation process of rotating crops of different kinds to preserve soil.
Later Machines replaced many workers
Urbanization- growth of cities

4. Factors of Production
Industrial Revolution- era of rapid industrial development
Began in Great Britain which had a favorable combination of needed factors
Factors of Production
Land
Capital
Labor

5. Textile Industry
1600s men and women in England spun thread and wove cloth by hand in their homes.
Mechanization automated machinery used to speed up production
Spinning Wheel>Spinning Jenny>Spinning Mill
Factory System- production of goods in a factory through use of machines
Eli Whitney- inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

6. Steam, Iron, and Steel Early machines were driven by water power.
James Watt responsible for improving steam power so that it could be used in many areas
More machines meant more iron was needed
Steam Engines often exploded because
Henry Bessemer develops a cheap efficient way of making steel called the Bessemer Process

7. Other Industrialization
British Manufacturers applied new technology to other industries
Production of Shoes, clothing, ammunition, and furniture were mechanized
Printing, papermaking, lumber, and food processing

8. Transportation
Transportation had changed little between the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
Stagecoaches, packhorses, horse drawn wagons
Watt’s steam engine used to speed up transportation.
Steam Locomotive
Robert Fulton- First person to build a profitable Steam Boat