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Do Now. Get in your groups and finish sharing your expertise on the causes of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. Paste/Tape/Staple this matrix into page 34 of your notebook. Today’s Objective. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain?

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  1. Do Now • Get in your groups and finish sharing your expertise on the causes of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. • Paste/Tape/Staple this matrix into page 34 of your notebook.

  2. Today’s Objective • Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain? • Where did the Industrial Revolution spread?

  3. “No unbiased observer, who derives pleasure from the welfare of his species, can fail to consider the long and uninterruptedly increasing prosperity of England as the most beautiful phenomenon in the history of mankind… in no other region have the benefits that political institutions can confer been diffused over so extended a population; nor have any people so well reconciled the discordant elements of wealth, order, and liberty.” - Historian Henry Hallman 1818

  4. Britain – mid 18th century • Stability! What allowed Britain to be stable at this time? 1) Government • Glorious Revolution  Parliament + Monarchy + = This means: Policies can change without the whole system crashing down.

  5. 2) UK is center of Worldwide Commerce • No more tariffs or restrictions on trade within Britain. • What does this mean for merchants, farmers, manufacturers, citizens? • ½ world’s sea trade on British ships. Colonies, trading stations 3) Stable Economy • Bank of England (1694) • Government controls debts (unlike those frivolous monarchs) • People trust British Money- they invest, borrow, etc. 4) No wars on home soil. • Manufacturing for profit not war • Wars abroad open up more trade and commerce for Britain (India, North America)

  6. “We export to Jamaica, and the rest of the Sugar Colonies all manner of materials for wearing apparel, household furniture of all sorts, cutlery and haberdashy wares, watches, jewels and toys, East-India goods of all sorts, some French wines, English malt liquor, linen cloths of the growth of Scotland, Ireland, and Germany, and our ships generally touch in Ireland and take in provisions, such as beef, pork, and butter. The returns from thence are rums, sugars, cotton, indigo, some fine woods, such as mahogany… and some dying woods, particularly logwood.” • Richard Campbell, 1747 • The London Tradesman, a guide to trade and commerce in London. What other things did they trade?

  7. Molasses to rum to slaves, oh what a beautiful waltzYou dance with us, we dance with youMolasses and rum and slavesWho sails the ships out of BostonLadened with bibles and rum?Who drinks a toast to the Ivory Coast?Hail Africa, the slavers have comeNew England with bibles and rumMolasses to rum to slaves'Tisn't morals, 'tis money that savesShall we dance to the sound of the profitable poundIn molasses and rum and slaves

  8. Industrial Revolution in Europe Time of I.R.: Examples of I.R. Influence on Europe: Time of I.R.: Examples of I.R. Previous barriers to the I.R. Time of I.R.: Examples of I.R. Previous barriers to the I.R. Time of I.R.: Examples of I.R. Previous barriers to the I.R.

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