1. The Industrial Revolution:
Impact on the Balance of Power in Europe

2. Industrial Revolution began in Britain
The Industrial Revolution did not happen swiftly
IR was a long, slow, uneven process in which production shifted from simple hand tools to complex machines

3. Why Britain?
Lower food prices = more money to buy manufactured goods and more children = larger labor force
Import/export policies of free trade from enlightenment coal and iron ore was abundant to fuel the revolution

4. Before the Industrial Revolution
Prior to 1750 people:
Lived in small villages
Grew their own food
Made their own clothes
Knew little of the world

5. Farming Methods Improve
Farm journals spread
Crop rotation methods & mixing soils
Jethro Tull invented the “Seed drill”
More efficient farming  less workers needed

6. Population Multiplies
Agriculture revolution creates surplus of food
Better hygiene and sanitation
Improved medical care
European Population
1700: 120 million
1800: 180 million

8. Urbanization Unemployed farmers move to cities in search of work
Growth of cities

9. By 1850, villages grew into industrial towns
Clothes made in factories
Travel increased by train or steamship
Food shipped from far away
Skyscrapers begin to be developed
Ditherington Flax Mill – oldest iron framed building

10. Power Who had power? How was power used? How did it affect the people?
How do they keep power?