Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why Great Britain Started the Industrial Revolution
- Labour
- Enclosure Movement
- population continued to grow
- Better forms of transportation(people was able to migrate to cities
- Natural Resources
- Ex: Coal, iron ore...
- Capital
- Industrial Revolution grew on itself
- money made in early industries(textile,agriculture) reinvested
- Transportation
- canals
- railways: 1830s and 1840s were the great age of railway building
- Entrepreneurship
- strong middle class
- liberal nobles who were willing to invest in new ventures
- Government Support
- strong navy to protect merchant ships
- ommercially minded Parliament
- few laws to limit what entrepreneurs could do
- Markets
- French revolution and napolean wars opened 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