Impact Of Industrialisation : THE NORTH/SOUTH DIVIDE

Question 1

How did it change

Answer 1

With the introduction of more commercial interests, industries drafted closer to areas with better transportation networks e.g Lancashire had already been well adapted to the cotton industry due to its climate but was also near to the port of Liverpool.

Question 2

Introduction of the steam engine

Answer 2

1769, so coal became the most important raw material and so industry gravitated towards it e.g South Wales, and the Clyde valley

Question 3

Farming technologies

Answer 3

Andrew Meikle’s threshing machine in 1789 promoted greater productivity and ensured that the south developed

Question 4

Difference between the north and the south

Answer 4

Mechanisation in the south was reducing the need for human labour whilst in the north it was creating a demand for it therefore there was a steady exodus of labour from the countryside into newly developing and employment rich towns.