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Thursday, September 27, 2018

SOCIAL CONTEXT-THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION





  • INCREASE IN POPULATION                                                     
         TOWARDS 1750
             The demand for food and goods increased

    • NEW TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTIONS       
           The spinning jenny ,The steam engineThe water frame
    • NEW SOURCES OF POWER                                                 
            Coal and steam  


    • NEW FACTORIES WERE BUILT                   
            From handwork to work done by machines 

            From work at home to work in factories   

    • TRANSPORT IMPROVEMENTS
                     New waterways
                     Road conditions improved
                    New roads were built
    • CHANGES IN AGRICULTURE
    Improvements in agriculture-New farming methods, New farming machinery
    • ENCLOSURE OF OPEN FIELDS AND COMMON LAND (Enclosure Acts)
    (Poor farmers couldn't buy the land)
    • THE RURAL POPULATION moved to the cities to find work

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