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