2. Pre-Industrial Society
Farming in the Middle Ages
3 field system
Disadvantages
No time to experiment
Long hours
Forces for Change
Population Growth
Napoleon’s Continental System

4. Agricultural Revolution
Enclosure Movement
Landlords fenced in land for scientific farming
Crop Rotation
Improvement on “three field” system
Other Discoveries
Jethro Tull’s “Seed Drill”
Results
More food available
Population Increase

5. Seed Drill

7. Cottage Industry Merchants Role Capitalism Effects
Rising population = Rising Demand
Merchants invest in factors of production to earn a profit
Capitalism
Laissez-Faire Economics
Laws of Supply and Demand
Effects
Big Profits for Merchants
Alternative Sources of Income for Peasants

9. Rise of the Factory Textile Industry Rise of the Factory Effects
New Inventions improve efficiency
Rise of the Factory
New machines too big for homes
Factories located next to power sources
Effects
Prices for textiles/finished products lowers
Villagers/Peasants leave to find work in urban factories

11. Steam Engine Need for Energy How the Steam Engine Works Effects
Water , Horses, Oxen primarily used for power
James Watt invents Steam Engine
How the Steam Engine Works
Steam forced from high to low pressure produces power
Effects
Steam power, used where ever coal existed
Increase in textile industry

13. Iron and Coal Need for Iron Need for Coal Effects of Iron and Coal
Increase in need for machines / railway
Iron Smelting created steel (more flexible)
Need for Coal
Carbon necessary for smelting iron
Effects of Iron and Coal
Mining industry for coal
Britain produced more coal and iron than any other nation

15. Transportation Need for Better Transportation Inventions
Increase in trade (movement of goods and resources)
Inventions
Asphalt Roads
The Rocket (First Locomotive)
Effects of the Railroad
Rapid Expansion
Cheaper transportation increased production and profits
Increased travel

17. Why was Britain first to Industrialize?
Geography
Not apart of continental Europe
Resources
Government
Unified, Stable
Social Factors
less hierarchical
Colonial Empire
Gave Natural Resources
Advantages
Monopoly
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