What Caused the What Caused the Industrial Revolution?Industrial Revolution?

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IndustrializtionIndustrializtion

Industrialization is the growth of manufacturing activity in an economy or region.

Several Factors/EventsSeveral Factors/Events

Several factors and events lead to the Industrial Revolution.

Agricultural Revolution

Population Explosion

Energy Revolution

Agricultural RevolutionAgricultural Revolution

2nd Agricultural Revolution

Dutch built dikes to protect farmland from the sea. Used animal fertilizer to improve soil.

British discovered ways to produce more food and invented the seed drill (deposited seeds in rows rather than scattering them wastefully over the land).

Improvements lead to better food production.

Quick AssignmentQuick Assignment

Go to page 197

Read the section titled “Enclosure Movement.”

Answer the following writing prompt: What were the results of the enclosure movement?

Be sure to write down the definition of “enclosure” in your notes

Population ExplosionPopulation Explosion

People ate better.

Women gave birth to healthier babies.

Improvements in medical care slowed the death rate.

This population explosion created a demand for more goods.

New TechnologyNew Technology

Lead to an energy revolution.

Water wheels powered new machines.

Coals was used to fuel the steam engine.

Technology advancements lead to the faster production of goods.

Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution

Began in England in the late 1700s.

Period of rapid change.

Machines replaced human labor and new sources of energy were found.