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dramatic changes in four areas

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AGRICULTURE more food grown
INDUSTRY more goods produced people now worked in factorys
TRANSPORT new way of moving goods and road were built
URBANISATION people now moved to cities

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why the industrial revolution started in Britain

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population explosion
raw material from colonies 
new farming methods 
coal and iron ore
inventions
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causes of population explosion

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fewer famines
plague stopped
medical discoveries (cure for smallpox) vacccinatio)

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raw materials from colonies

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british colonies provided britian with cheap resources

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coal and iron ore

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was in plentiful supply

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the affect of the agricultural revolution

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increase in food supply
larger families
more workers available for factory’s
fewer people needed on farms

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