Question

Cause And Effects Of The Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Causes:

-Iron renovations: stronger, better quality iron
-Labor surplus- more jobs, more people to do jobs
-Stable agricultural society- the agricultural revolution improved food supply and quality; created a strong base for industrialization
-High food supply- stated above; more farmland + more transportation = more crops
-Ready capital- constant supply of money
-Population growth- due to food supply
-Government allowed fencing off lands- peasants now needed work after being kicked off private farmland
-Entrepreneurs- people wanted to make money through new ways and opportunities
-Plentiful natural resources- rivers = water power for steam engine and transportation, iron ore and coal = fuel
-Relatively free society- government usually exhibited laissez faire (let people do what they want), economy regulated itself, ideas circulated freely
-Ready market- ships could deliver and transport
-Stable government- strong central government to support the people

Effects:

-Better transportation- faster, cheaper
-Long distance communications- telegraphs, etc. linked nations from coast to coast
-Money to be made- capitalism: investments, inventing, selling, producing
-Bad working conditions- disease, deformations, long, hard hours
-Child abuse
-New inventions- locomotives (railroads), purer iron, factories, spinning jenny, steam engines, steamboats...etc
-Rural workers became urban workers
-Increased production rates (everything machine made)
-Family life disrupted- families were separated, women and children also labored
-Bad pay- women paid half or less than men
-Migration and population boom in cities- everyone flocked to cities to work in factories
-Industrialization "age"- spread to Europe and around the world
-Social classes formed- industrial middle class and industrial working classes emerged
-Industrial capitalism took hold- economic system of manufacturing

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Damn.

Answer 5

Why are we all still here? xD