The Industrial Revolution

1750s – 1914By: Stephen Hong

What factors led to the industrial revolution

Factor 1 “The Agricultural Revolution”

• They had new crops from the new world.• New farming methods called Enclosure and

New Technologies and knowledge to improve yields.

Factor 2 “The Domestic System”/Cottage Industry

• Small Scale Industry.• Many cloths were made out of wool.• Many men women and children had the skill

to spinning, weaving, dying.

Factor 3 New Economic Conditions

• Had a high demand for manufactured products.

• New Theory – Capitalism

Industrial Revolution Begins in Great Britain by the 1780s

Reason 1Abundant Natural Resources and Food

• Because of the Agricultural Revolution we have more food.

• A lots more water ways, coal and iron. • Britain supplied lots of additional raw

materials.

Reason 2 Large Labor Supply

• Faster population growth.• Lots of people to move to the cities looking for

jobs because the of Agricultural Revolution.

Reason 3 Britain’s Favorable Government

• Parliament makes a new law that helps investment in businesses.

Reason 4 Britain’s Prosperous Middle Class

• Entrepreneurs helps invest in company's.• Successful merchants: to sell goods thought

out the world.

Reason 5 New Inventions + Already Thriving Textile Industry = Faster Production

• People are inventing more products in a faster rate.

• Factories had more efficient production because of more people.

Reason 6: Major Inventions to Speed Transportation

• The rail roads thought out Britain. • The steam engine.• Canals.

Definition• Textiles : A type of cloth or woven fabric.’• Industry : Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and

manufacture of goods in factories.• Manufacturing : 1.Make (something) on a large scale using machinery: "they

manufacture paint"; "a manufacturing company".• Urban : In, relating to, or characteristic of a city or town: "the urban population".• Rural : In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town:

"remote rural areas".• Capitalism : An economic and political system in which a country's trade and

industry are controlled by private owners for profit.• Entrepreneur : A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses,

taking on financial risk to do so.• Labor : Work, esp. hard physical work: "manual labor".