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TermVocabulary Industrialism Textile
Essential Question
Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain?
What changed during this revolution?
While political revolutions swept through Europe and beyond…
a new kind of revolution started in Great Britain in the 1700s
This revolution would result in INDUSTRIALISM
Using machines instead of animal and human power
What was society like before?
Before this change took place…
Most of the world was based on AGRICULTURE
farming
Why the sudden change?
Many factors made contributed in the switch to industry:
People began buying, selling, trading raw materials
Trading had increased the money supply
People were moving to cities for business and manufacturing jobs
Why Great Britain?Great Britain turned out to be the perfect place for the
Industrial Revolution to begin…
Why?
Natural resources
Access to water
A large population
and
What resourced were there?
NATURAL RESOURCES
Great Britain was rich in natural resources, such as…
Coal Iron
Coal was replacing wood as a source of fuel for
machines
Iron was used to build machines and make
steel
and
Why is water so important?
ACCESS TO WATER
Great Britain’s rivers flowed all year round...
Powered machines
Transported materials
Rivers:
Connected areas
Where are the people?
LARGE POPULATIONGreat Britain had the markets to sell manufactured goods
It also had:
A huge empire with lots of colonies
Plenty of ships to sail their goods around the world
What are textiles? The first change from handmade goods to machine
made goods showed up in the TEXTILE industry
cloth
People used to:
1. Go house to house
2. Bring sheep wool to workers
3. Use hand power to spin looms and wheels
4. Spin the wool into cloth in their home
5. Merchants would pick up cloth and take it to be sold
How did production change?
Because the old method was too slow…
Merchants developed machines that could spin wool faster
They used water as a source of power
Factories began popping up near streams and rivers
What is a factory?This began the FACTORY SYSTEM
System of bringing workers and machines together in one place
– the FACTORY
After coal became a power source, factories could be built anywhere
Why the focus on urban areas?
This began the process of URBANIZATION
Movement of people from rural to urban
areas
Towns grew around the factories
Now, more people lived in cities than ever before
How did the ideas spread?Britain tried to guard its industrial secrets by
forbidding the export of machines or skilled workers
But…
Workers followed money and opportunities elsewhere
Investors saw the opportunity to make more money elsewhere
Factories and railroads began popping up all over the world
Who used Britain’s ideas?
United States
Germany
Japan
Technological secrets slipped out of Britain through people such as SAMUEL SLATER
Began buying British machines in the early
1800s
Benefited from trade with U.S. after it’s
industrialization
Essential Question
Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain?
Why Britain?
