Began in Great Britain in 1780
Causes:
-Expansion of farmland
-Good weather
-Improved transportations
-Increase of food supply
-Population grew
-Ready supply of money to invest in new machines and factories
-Water power for new factories
-Ships that could transport
Cotton Production
Manufacture of cotton
-Spinners made cotton threads from raw cotton
-Weavers wove the cotton thread into cloth on looms
1764- James Hargraves invented the spinning jenny
1787- Edmund Cartwrightt invented the water-powered loom
1760’s- James Watt improved the steam engine
Iron industry- started because of the use of coal
Railroads- important for the industrial revolution
-1st invented by Richard Trevithick
-Created new jobs to farm laborers and peasants
-Less expensive transportation led to lower-priced goods
Industrial Revolution spread to the rest of Europe, USA and Germany
1807- paddle-wheel steamboat by Robert Fulton
Population grew because of the decline of death rates, wars and diseases
They were new social classes
Socialism- government owns and controls the means of production