Industrialization & Working Class

Landowners take land from peasants and combined the land into big farms. The land was meant for livestock and agriculture to increased production and became more efficient, profits rose. As result, farmers migrate to cities to work in the factories.

• enclosure movement

• factories

• legislation

• parliament

Place in which workers and machines are brought together to produce large quantities of goods, it is a large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods.

• enclosure movement

• factories

• legislation

• parliament

The act of making or enacting laws

• enclosure movement

• factories

• legislation

• parliament

Played an important role in the mechanization of textile production. Like the spinning wheel, it may be operated by a treadle or by hand. But, unlike the spinning wheel, it can spin more than one yarn at a time. The idea for multiple-yarn spinning was conceived about 1764 by James Hargreaves, an English weaver.

• spinning jenny

• steam engine

• textile factories

• water powered loom

The machine that turns energy released by burning fuel, primarily coal, into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first workable one in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. It was then applied to machinery in 1782.

• spinning jenny

• steam engine

• textile factories

• water powered loom

This machine made it possible for the weaving of cloth to catch up with the spinning of thread; Edmund Cartwright- built factories on rivers and streams to power the looms

• spinning jenny

• steam engine

• textile factories

• water powered loom

Which country industrialized first?

• United States of America

• Germany

• France

• Great Britain (U.K.)

What were the causes of the Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain?

• Expansion of farmland and improvements in crop storage and transportation

• Innovations in fertilizers and new crops like the potato increased the food supply

• More people could be fed at lower prices with less labor.

• Ordinary British families could use some of their income to buy manufactured goods.

What were the effects of the Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain?

• Expansion of farmland and improvements in crop storage and transportation

• Innovations in fertilizers and new crops like the potato increased the food supply

• More people could be fed at lower prices with less labor.

• Ordinary British families could use some of their income to buy manufactured goods.

In the Second factor that led Great Britain to become the first place for the Industrial Revolution to take place, what was the food supply's impact?

• This meant that few people faced starvation & the population grew

• Resulted in a healthier population

• Peasants moved to towns, creating a labor supply for factories

• Landowners fenced off common lands