INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
 
I.  Overview
  	A.  What was it?
  	B.  What’s the significance?
II.  Britain (1740-1860)
  	A.  Why did it begin in Britain?
   		1.  good government 
   		2.  effective institutions 
   		3.  agricultural revolution (enclosures in 1700s)
    			a) from open-field to crop rotation
     				-- more food --> population growth
    			b) landless wage-earning class
  	B.  Cotton textile industry
   		1.  putting-out system  
    			a) weavers
    			b) spinners 
     			c) power = humans
   		2.  new machinery
    			a) “flying shuttle” (1733)
    			b) spinning jenny (1764)
    			c) power = water (1770s) & steam (1780s)
   		3.  British cotton textiles (by 1820)
    			a) quantity & quality
    			b) riots (1791, 1810-20)
    			c) Indian cotton
    			d) U.S. cotton gin (1793) & slavery
  	C.  Coal:  A new energy source
   		1.  iron industry (1775, 1780s)   
   		2.  steam engine (1763, 1785) 
   		3.  railroad industry (1829, 1840s)
   		4.  steamships (1838)
 III.  The Second Stage (1860-1914)
  	A.  Technological advances
   		1.  steel (1856)
   		2.  chemical (after 1870s)
   		3.  electric (1870s)
  	B.  Organizational breakthroughs
   		1.  factory production
   		2.  global investments
  	C.  Warfare
 
 
Think/Write
 What inventions do you think were the most important & why?