Industrial Revolution Flashcards
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More background?
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Britain had:
- coal and water to provide energy
- rivers and ports fir good transportation
- wealth
- good universities
- political stability
- large population of workers
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Background
Britain 18th century Agricultural revolution
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- People began experimenting scientific ways to grow crops
- Methods like crop rotation caused an increase in food and people
- Livestock improved because of selective breeding
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How did it begin?
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Innovation began in the textile industry.
- people invented machines that could make cloth faster
- cotton and sugar led to slavery
- Britain starts selling clothes
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Transport causes what?
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- James Watt found a way to make steam engines efficient. People began using them in the 1800s.
- trains are invented in England.
- trains are faster and safer
- transported food
- urbanization: cities were not prepared. Crowded. Disease. Life span of 17.
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How was work?
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- average worker worked 14hrs per day, 6 days a week.
- children were used in machines.
- not seasonal
- dangerous
