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    The document discusses the key factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in Britain, turning it into the world's first industrial nation. It identifies six main factors: 1) Population boom between 1750-1900 which increased demand, 2) Improved agricultural methods to feed the growing population, 3) New factories using water and steam power to mass produce goods, 4) Sources of power like water, coal, and steam that powered the new machines, 5) Improved transportation networks like canals and railroads to move goods, and 6) Britain's growing global empire which provided resources and new markets for British manufactured products. When these six factors came together, it created the conditions for the Industrial Revolution to transform Britain into the "workshop of

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    The document discusses the key factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in Britain, turning it into the world's first industrial nation. It identifies six main factors: 1) Population boom between 1750-1900 which increased demand, 2) Improved agricultural methods to feed the growing population, 3) New factories using water and steam power to mass produce goods, 4) Sources of power like water, coal, and steam that powered the new machines, 5) Improved transportation networks like canals and railroads to move goods, and 6) Britain's growing global empire which provided resources and new markets for British manufactured products. When these six factors came together, it created the conditions for the Industrial Revolution to transform Britain into the "workshop of

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    Britain As the First Industrial Nation

    The Birth of the Industrial Revolution


    Learning Objective
    • To understand the main factors in the creation of industrial Britain.

    Success Criteria
    • To consider the importance of cities.
    • To prioritise the factors of the industrial revolution from most to least important.
    • To explain personal views on the most important factor.
    Why Cities?
    The birth of modern cities was an important step in human history.

    Discuss why cities are important with a partner.

    What do cities give us that country villages could not?

    Can you come up with three reasons together?


    What Was the Industrial Revolution?
    The Industrial Revolution was a time in British history where the country changed
    hugely from a mostly rural society to an industrial one.

    This means that many British people moved from living in small towns and villages,
    where they were farmers, to huge cities, where they worked in places such as
    factories or mills.

    It is called a revolution because it was such a huge change. The birth of the
    Industrial Revolution is the birth of the modern world that we know today.

    Key Terms
    rural - life in the countryside.
    industrial – life in cities centred around
    mass production.
    Six Factors
    There were six main factors that came together to create
    the Industrial Revolution.

    Unlike political or violent revolutions, the Industrial


    Revolution happened over a long period of time rather
    than suddenly.

    Just like baking a cake, the ingredients for the Industrial


    Revolution had to be present together at the right time and
    then left to heat up…

    In your groups, read through your information sheet and create a freezeframe – an
    still group image that will sum up the information you have been given.

    Be ready to share with the class!


    Population Boom
    Between 1750 and 1900, the population of Britain grew by four times, from 10
    million people to 40 million people.

    This created problems:

    How could this population be fed, clothed and housed?

    Supply was found to match demand. This increase in population led to many
    businessmen and innovators finding ingenious solutions whilst making a lot of
    money.

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    1960 2000 2050
    Improved Agriculture
    During this period, farmers became more efficient in order to feed the growing
    population.

    Using advances such as improved crop rotation, selective breeding of animals and
    new machinery, farmers made the land that had been farmed in a similar way for
    centuries more efficient.

    One of the most important early developments was


    Jethro Tull’s seed drill.

    The seed drill planted seeds quickly and efficiently


    without the need to do it by hand.
    Factories
    It was not only farmers who were developing new machines and ideas.

    Factories began to be built in cities to produce goods at a far faster rate than before.
    People moved from the countryside to the cities to work in them.
    Woollen cloth and cotton goods had been produced
    in small amounts in people’s homes for centuries. A
    factory could produce huge amounts textiles quickly:
    useful for clothing the increasing population and as
    trade goods.
    Power
    The first factories were powered by water and used
    wooden machines. New types of power would lead to
    bigger, more efficient factories.

    Coal was mined in large amounts and used to create


    wrought-iron: iron that was tough enough to create
    large, complex machines.

    Steam power was a technology that led to innovations


    such as James Nasmyth’s steam hammer, as well as new
    forms of transport.
    Transport
    With growth in agriculture and industry, things needed to be moved around the
    country in large amounts.

    Canals, such as the Bridgewater Canal, were dug to link growing cities together - in
    this case, Manchester and Liverpool - and transport goods between them.

    Roads were improved to make travel by cart easier and faster.

    Railways were laid to accommodate a new, wondrous invention: the


    steam train.
    Empire
    It was not just at home that Britain grew. The British Empire expanded from a few
    colonies in 1750 to cover a fifth of the world’s land by 1900.

    Colonies in places such as India, Australia, Canada and South Africa gave British
    factories access to exotic resources such as cotton, silk, fur and tea.

    By 1900, the Empire had a population of around 400 million people; each of these a
    potential customer for British goods, which pushed production
    ever onwards.
    The Perfect Recipe
    When all mixed together, the six factors we have looked at created the Industrial
    Revolution.

    Now you have had a chance to see the factors that went into the
    Industrial Revolution, fill in your activity sheets with as much
    information as you can.
    The Workshop of the World
    Britain became known as the ‘workshop of the world’ by the mid-19th century.

    Can you explain what this means?

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