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
- Capital
- Industrial Revolution grew on itself
- money made in early industries (textile,
iron-making, etc.) was reinvested
- Markets
- the end of the French Revolution and the wars of
Napoleon opened the continent up to British
products
- he 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
- strong navy to protect merchant ships
- strong navy to protect merchant ships