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1 Industrial Revolution
History Alive slides

2 Pre-Industrial Revolution

3 Crop rotation

4 Agricultural Revolution
Enclosure movement Crop rotation Seed drill: 1701 Old World: corn and potatoes More food/Livestock/more fertilizer

5 Domestic system

6 Cottage Industry Merchants plotted stages of production
Early prelude to industrialization Model for early capitalism

7 Mercantilism Export rather than import
Import raw materials/export finished products Regulation of trade and commerce Goods tightly regulated to keep prices up

8 Capitalism Great Britain moves toward free trade Private ownership
Competition

9 factory

10 Textile/factory system
Demand for more cloth increased need for efficiency (chart) Factories located near power/water at first

11 Effects of Factory System
Division of labor Employers controlled all Cotton imports increased Price of yarn decreased End of cottage industry

12 Steam Engine 1790: James Watt River Water power no longer sufficient
Water heated by coal Factories could be anywhere Mines freed of flooding potential

13 Making steel

14 Iron and Coal Painting: Kroyer, 1885
Need for iron increases: war, agricultural tools, machinery, railroad lines Need for coal increases Note: Britain produced more iron than all other nations together

15 Transportation Improvements steam engine Better roads
Thomas Telford, John MacAdam Canals

16 Effects of Industrial Revolution
Poor lost farms/became wage earners Large land owners increased power More food available/fewer peope starved/population increased Living conditions improved

17 Why England

18 Steam engine

19 Girls factory

20 Labor resistance

21 Overhead causes/effects

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