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Where did the Industrial revolution first take place.

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Britain

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When did it start?

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in the 1750s

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What was a result of the Industrial Revolution

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machine-based manufacturing

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Who set up factories

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Wealthy textile merchants

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what lead to the growth of industrial cities

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workers coming to the factories

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what forced farmers to be pushed off their land

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cheap labour and agricultural revolution.

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where were farmers being forced to live in

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urban centres for employment

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How was transport revolutionsed

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the use of steam energy to create the railroad engine

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What happened by 1830

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railway lines began to appear across western europe

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what did the New world countries do

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they provided britain and europe with resources

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Who lost their land to european migration

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Indigenous people.

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What is Equalitarism

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equality of people

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What is unionists

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workers come together in factories

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what is socialism

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communal owerniships of land, factories, capital ect

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Why was britain the birthplace of the industrial revolution

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britsish goods increased and merchants needed more cost effective methods of production which led to the rise of mechansiation

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What did enclosures do to the agricultural revolution

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enclosures made peasents flood into the cities and get jobs

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What else did enclosures do

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clear waste made by the peasents

18
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What did crop rotation do

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it helped crops grow quicker and easier

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what was the system called

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four-field system

20
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Crop production did what?

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increase food for the people

21
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what farm machines were invented

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mechanical drills and seed sowing ad threshing machines

22
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What are some other reasons the industrial revolution started in britain

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Because of britains large coal supply and access to raw material from other countries

23
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What 3 things britain had but no other country had

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britains coal supplies
naval ower and trading power
access to raw materials from british empire

24
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what other 3 things

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stable government
good banking system and capital investment
freedom and capital spirit

25
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why was steam power such a significant invention

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it powered machines that created products and allowed mass production.

26
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what is a spinny jenny

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it is a multi-spindle spinning frame and one of the key devlopments for weaving

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who was it invented by

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james Hargreaves in 1764

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what is cromptoms mule

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it was a weaving machine that combined the carriage of the spinny jenny and the rollers of the water frame it cpould produce different types of yarn

29
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how did inventions and innovations change working conditions

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it made worker work longer hours
dangerous bc of machinery
skilled weavers lost their job so factory didn’t have to pay them much

30
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what was the use of iron

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cheap iron utensils pots and pans for the kitchen.

building factories and houses

31
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what is the internal combustion system

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an engine that sucked coal, gas, and air in a cylinder to turn a wheel

32
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what was possible with the internal combustion engine

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bikes and motorbikes
cars
planes

33
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who made the car into a common mans thing

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henry ford

34
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why was electricity an improvement for the industry.

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people could work at night
streets lit up
factories driven by electricity were cleaner and safer

35
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why would communication be important

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countries could contact other places if they needed products

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