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Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution . Alex Tuan . 561-570 Britain Industrial Revolution . Events Agricultural Revolution . Agricultural revolution New farmeuipment were made Jethrotull The seed drill Other inventions Horsedrawn hoe Iron plow New crops Turnips and potatoes New projects

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Industrial Revolution

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  1. Industrial Revolution Alex Tuan

  2. 561-570 Britain Industrial Revolution

  3. Events Agricultural Revolution • Agricultural revolution • New farmeuipment were made • Jethrotull • The seed drill • Other inventions • Horsedrawn hoe • Iron plow • New crops • Turnips and potatoes • New projects • Irrigation • Drainage projects • Increasing productivity of land • Enclosure acts • 1741-1801 ¼ of land converted from community property to private • Agricultural productivity went up • Peasant riots broke out • Capitalist market system formed

  4. Events Textile Revolution • Textile manufacture revolution • Indias colorful durable cotton displace wool • Manipulated tarrifs • New technology Britain>India productivity • Spinning wheel • Flying jenny • Spinning jenny • Water frame • Spinning mule • Engineering • Steam power pumps • Steam engine • Larger steam engines • Power looms • Cotton production went up

  5. Terms • Enclosure Acts • 1741-1801 ¼ of land converted from community property to private • Agricultural productivity went up • Peasant riots broke out • Puddling • Encouraged the use of larger ovens and integrated processes of • Melting iron • Hammering iron • Rolling iron • The industrial Revolution • “In the early nineteenth century the industrial revolution spread throughout the trading (and enmeshed their colonies, which provided both raw materials and markets). The earlier use of water power gave way to steam engines; coal became the power source. Canal transportation was superseded by railways, driven by steam.”

  6. People • JethroTull • Seed drill • John Kay • Flying shuttle • James Hargreaves • Spinning jenny • Richard Arkwright • Water frame • Samuel Crompton • Spinning mule • Edmund Cartwright • Provided principles of the technology to weaving • Thomas Newcomen • Steam power for pumps • James Watts • Improvements on the steam engine • Matthew Boulton • Developed larger steam engines

  7. Capital Goods: Iron, Steam Engines, Railways, and Steamships • New mining processes providing coal, a more fuel • Relocated to coal and iron mines • Production of Iron went up • Doubled from 1796-1804 • 125,000-250,000 tons • Need for Iron went up • Quality of iron went up • Locomotives superseded canal systems

  8. 574-584

  9. events • 1831 • Investigations of conditions of child labor • Public Health Act • Ten hour act • Extending the ruling of cover factories and limited the hours of work for women • Municipal Corporation act • Reformed elections and administrations • Child Act • Peterloo Massacre • Massacre • Male suffrage • Poor law 1834 • Provided assistance to maintain adequate life

  10. People • Michael Thomas Sadler • Investigated conditions of child labor • Emmeline Pankhurst • Formed suffragette organizations • Sir Edwin Chadwik • Investigator • Made the Board of health • Francis Cabot Lowell • Built mills at Waltham

  11. Terms • Family wage • Demand for higher pays • Physical force • Waves of violence

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