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The Dawn of the Industrial Age
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Improvements in Farming• Methods of farming
changed to help farmers produce more efficiently:
– Crop rotation
– New farming equipment like seed drills and plows
– Enclosure laws created larger fields and farms to yield more on any given plot of land
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New Technology Leads the Way• New methods in harnessing
energy helped to create new industries
– Coal was an important power source and spawned the steam engine
– Coal was vital to the production of iron, which was needed for machines and steam engines
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Britain Rises to the Top• Britain became the hub of
industrial development for three primary reasons:
(1) abundant natural resources
(2) financial capital (money) from the slave trade and enterprise (businesses) from shipping and coal mining
(3) stable government that supported economic growth and protected its borders
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The Birth of Textiles• Cotton was available in
large quantities to Britain from India
• New inventions like the cotton gin helped increase the efficiency of production
• The textile industry (spinning raw cotton into usable fabrics) was born