HOW DID FACTORIES CREATE TOWNS? · HOW DID FACTORIES CREATE TOWNS? • to be able to explain how...
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HOW DID FACTORIES CREATE TOWNS?• to be able to explain how factories caused the population of towns
to increase.
• to be able to give two reasons why steam engine replaced waterwheels as the source of power for factories.
• to be aware of the positive and negative effects that this new power source had.
Factory owners started to build houses for their workers, shops, churches and inns.
Tiny villages became large towns
Small towns became huge, overcrowded cities.
• Better than
domestic system.
• The promise of
regular work and
good wages.
• 1768
• James Watt with
the help of
Matthew Boulton
developed new and
efficient steam
engine.
Steam Engine
• Turned a wheel just like a river.
• Hence, more and more factory owners were interested as machines could be powered using steam.
Affected Britain
Faster and more reliable
Factories didn’t have to be built next to the river.
They could be built anywhere
More and more people left countryside.
Produced other things
Industry had become merchandised and known as ‘the workshop of the world.’