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Industrial Revolution
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Pre-Industrial Revolution
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Crop rotation
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Agricultural Revolution
Enclosure movement Crop rotation Seed drill: 1701 Old World: corn and potatoes More food/Livestock/more fertilizer
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Domestic system
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Cottage Industry Merchants plotted stages of production
Early prelude to industrialization Model for early capitalism
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Mercantilism Export rather than import
Import raw materials/export finished products Regulation of trade and commerce Goods tightly regulated to keep prices up
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Capitalism Great Britain moves toward free trade Private ownership
Competition
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factory
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Textile/factory system
Demand for more cloth increased need for efficiency (chart) Factories located near power/water at first
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Effects of Factory System
Division of labor Employers controlled all Cotton imports increased Price of yarn decreased End of cottage industry
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Steam Engine 1790: James Watt River Water power no longer sufficient
Water heated by coal Factories could be anywhere Mines freed of flooding potential
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Making steel
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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
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Transportation Improvements steam engine Better roads
Thomas Telford, John MacAdam Canals
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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
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Why England
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Steam engine
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Girls factory
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Labor resistance
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Overhead causes/effects
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