INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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?- Created by: Nile Thomas
- Created on: 02-06-13 13:52
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- Industrial Revolution-Causes
- 1750 to 1900, population increase by 40 million from 11 million.
- Perhaps because britain was at peace.
- People lived in the countryside
- Farming was the main trade
- Most people farmed for themselves.
- Moved to cities
- More work
- Very insanitory
- Disease spread easily
- Open sewage channels
- Cramped
- Farming was the main trade
- Doubled by 1825
- More food needed to go round, and More raw materials
- production needed to speed up
- New inventions and discoveries
- Richard Arkwright, spinning frame
- Faster production, better threads
- for the more people
- Faster production, better threads
- Coal being used for power
- replaced wood
- 3x as good
- replaced wood
- James Watt, Steam engine
- George Stevenson, steam train, led to faster transport of goods and people.
- united britain as one.
- George Stevenson, steam train, led to faster transport of goods and people.
- Richard Arkwright, spinning frame
- Entrepreuners
- Invested a lot of money into these things
- cargo ships for slaves, or fruits and cotton
- Slavery
- Sugar
- Diets changed
- Boosted economy
- Cotton
- expansion of the Empire
- Sugar
- Tea
- Coffee
- Diets changed
- Profits made by slavery spent on investing in new invention
- Sugar
- Slavery
- Factories
- Cotton
- cargo ships for slaves, or fruits and cotton
- Richard Arkwright, spinning frame
- Faster production, better threads
- for the more people
- Faster production, better threads
- Invested a lot of money into these things
- expansion of the Empire
- Sugar
- Tea
- Coffee
- Transport
- Improved transport, because resources had to be transported a lot faster and in larger quantaties
- Bridgewater canal
- Turnpike roads
- Steam trains. fast smooth journeys
- Roads would be marshy, bumpy and boggy. With all these new good transported on horseback, many smashed, broken, spilt. Journeys very slow
- Improved transport, because resources had to be transported a lot faster and in larger quantaties
- 1750 to 1900, population increase by 40 million from 11 million.
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