Causes of the Industrial Revolution

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What was the Industrial Revolution?

• During the 1700s and early 1800s, great changes
  took place in the lives and work of people in
  several parts of the world. These changes
  resulted from the development of
  industrialization.
• The Industrial Revolution created an enormous
  increase in the production of many kinds of
  goods.
• It changed the Western world from a basically
  rural and agricultural society to a basically
  urban and industrial society.

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What was it like before the Industrial Revolution?
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Cottage Industry Before the revolution,
manufacturing was done by hand or simple
machines. Most people worked at home in rural
areas.
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Causes of the Industrial Revolution

• British Colonialism
• Population Boom
• Agricultural Revolution

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British Colonialism

• By the mid-1700's, the country had become the
  world's leading colonial power.
• Great Britain's colonies not only provided raw
  materials, but also provided markets for
  manufactured products.

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Population Boom

• Medical advancements allowed for higher birth
  rates and lower death rates.
• This allowed for a large labor force for growing
  industries.
• It also allowed for a larger market for the
  goods these industries were producing.

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Agricultural Revolution
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• The Agricultural Revolution is the name given to
  the drastic changes in the farming process that
  occurred in the 1600's onwards.
• Agricultural improvement began in the centuries
  before the Industrial revolution got going and it
  may have played a part in freeing up labour from
  the land to work in the new industrial mills of
  the eighteenth century.

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Jethro Tull- The Seed Drill

• The seed drill allows farmers to sow seeds in
  well-spaced rows at specific depths at a specific
  seed rate
• This invention gave farmers much greater control
  over the depth that the seed was planted and the
  ability to cover the seeds without back-tracking.
  
• Improved crop yield by up to 8 times the amount.

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Robert Bakewell- Scientific Breeding

• This was mating together two animals with
  particularly desirable characteristics.
• These methods proved successful in the production
  of larger and more profitable livestock.

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Was it a good thing or a bad thing?

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