Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why Great Britain Started the
Industrial Revolution
- Labour
- Enclosure movement
- population continued to grow
- better forms of transportation
- allowed people to migrate to the cities
- Natural Resources
- iron and ore
- coal
- Entrepreneurship
- strong middle class
- liberal nobles who were willing to invest in new ventures
- Transportation
- Canals
- Railways
- 1830s and 1840s were the great age of railway building
- Government support
- strong navy to protect merchant ships
- commercially minded Parliament
- few laws to limit what entrepreneurs could do
- Markets
- end of the French Revolution,wars of Napoleon open continent to British product
- Latin America opened markets of central and South america
- US and Canada demanded British products
- British commanded the markets of southern asia