Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why Great Britain Started the Industrial Revolution
- Labour
- Enclosure movement
- population continued to grow on the base of the 18th-century population explosion
- better forms of transportation (such as the railway) allowed people to migrate to the cities…by 1850,
one-half of the population of England and Whales and one-quarter of the population of France and
Germany had become town-dwellers
- Natural Resources
- Coal, Iron, Ore, etc.
- Capital
- Industrial Revolution grew on itself
- Money made in earlier industries (textiles, Iron Making, etc.) was reinvested
- 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
- Transportation
- Canals
- Railways: 1830s and 1840s were the great age of railway building
- Entrepreneurship
- Strong middle class
- liberal nobles who were willing to invest innew ventures
- Government Support
- strong navy to protect merchant ships
- commercial minded parliament
- few laws to limit what entrepreneurs could do