Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why Great Britain Started the Industrial Revolution
- Transportation
- canals
- railways golden age
- Natural Resources
- Coal
- Iron
- Ore
- Capital
- Industrial Revolution Grew on Itself
- money made in early
industries (textile,
iron-making, etc.) was
reinvested
- Labour
- Enclosure Movement
- Growth of Population
- Better Forms of Transportation
(like railways allowed people to
migrate to cities)
- Markets
- the end of the French Revolution
and the wars of Napoleon opened
the continent up to British
products
- the Latin American wars of independence opened the
markets of Central and South America
- the United States and
Canada demanded
British products
- through its control of India, Britain
commanded the markets of
southern Asia