![]() ![]() Building of factories: allowed industry to move out of the home and into a central location 8. Entrepreneurs: provided organization and management skills and took financial risks in developing new businesses 7. Technological advances in the textile industry: improved the quality and speed of cotton cloth production boosted profits spurred other industrial improvements 6. Factors of production: Britain had all the resources needed to produce goods and services, including land, labor, and capital. Political stability: enabled Britain to devote its energies and resources to economic expansion, industrialization, and overseas trade created a climate for progress 4. Abundant natural resources: Britain had the natural resources needed for industrialization: water power, coal, iron ore, rivers, and harbors. ![]() Agricultural revolution: Increased food supplies led to an increase in population that boosted demand for manufactured goods and provided labor for factories. Your bed, your antibiotics, your toilet, your contraception, your tap water - all thanks to the Industrial Revolution.ġ. Because of the Industrial Revolution, you have electricity, you have blueberries in February, you live somewhere other than a farm, you drive a car, you get 12 years of free formal education. less than 1% of people list their occupation as farming. Before the Industrial Revolution, about 80% of the world's population was engaged in farming to keep itself and the other 20% of people from starving. Simon Bolivar didn't change that, and neither did the American Declaration of Independence. For 15,000 years, most humans never owned or used a single item made outside of their communities. In all these millennia, we had never developed a weapon that could kill more than a couple dozen people at once, or a way to travel faster than horseback. ![]() Except for a few exceptions, life expectancy never rose above 35. Most people lived on or very closed to the land that provided their food. Before the Industrial Revolution, not much changed about the way we disposed of waste or located drinking water or acquired clothing. Its start marked a major turning point in human history almost every aspect of daily life was eventually influenced in some way. Although the Industrial Revolution occurred around the same time as the French, American, Latin American, and Haitian Revolutions, the Industrial Revolution was really the most revolutionary of the bunch. The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport had a great effect on the economic and cultural conditions in the United Kingdom, and then spreading throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world. The Industrial Revolution was an increase in production brought about by the use of machines and characterized by the use of new energy sources. ![]()
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