Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why Great Britain Started the Industrial Revoluton
- 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 Resourses
- Coal, iron ore,etc
- Capital
- money made in early industries
(textile, iron-making, etc.) was
reinvested
- Industrial Revolution grew on itself
- 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
in new ventures
- Government Support
- strong navy
to protect
merchant
ships
- commercially
minded
Parliament
- few laws to limit
what entrepreneurs
could do