Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why Great Britain Started the Industrial Revolution
- Natural
Resources
- Coal, iron, ore etc.
- Labour
- enclosure movement
- population continued to grow
- better forms of transportation enabled people to migrate to the cities
- Capital
- IR grew on itself
- money made in early industries was reinvested
- Markets
- end of french revolution and napoleonic wars opened continent up to british products
- latin american wars of independence opened markets of south and central america
- the US and Canada demanded british products
- britain commanded the markets of southern asia through its control of india
- Transportation
- canals
- railways
- Entrepreneurship
- strong middle class
- liberal nobles who were willing to invest in new ventures
- Government
Support
- strong navy to prevent merchant ships
- commmercially minded government
- few laws to limit what entrepreneurs could do