1. Aim: Why did the IR begin in Britain, and what changes did it bring to manufacturing processes?

2. Why did the IR start in Great Britain? G eography R esources in GB A ccess to raw materials from colonies P eople with money E xports

3. The Agricultural Revolution Crop Rotation leads to Food Surplus which leads to Population Boom Enclosure Movement leads to cities being flooded with former farmers

4. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose. The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who take things that are yours and mine. The poor and wretched don’t escape If they conspire the law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back.

6. Cottage Industry: Pre-urbanization Urbanization = people moving into modern cities Cottage Industry – Middlemen buy raw materials (cotton, for example) and sell to families – Families work together on each individual product – Middlemen buy the product back, family gets some of the profit

8. Factory System and Assembly Line Productivity – how much product you get based on the effort and labor (work) put in Mass Production – make many of the same items at once Interchangeable Parts are used on an Assembly Line – Items are assembled piece by piece so if a piece breaks you can replace one part – Each person on the assembly line puts together 2 parts of the item – no one makes the whole thing