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What was the Industrial Revolution?

Change from producing goods by hand to producing goods by machines
Where did the Industrial Revolution start?

England
Why did the Industrical Revolution begen there?
- People who had capital
- 2 most importent raw materials
- Large populations of workers
- Markets for good produced in factories
- Land had no war damage
Money to invest in new businesses where called?

Capital
What were the 2 most important raw materials of the Inductrial Revoultion?
- Coal
- Iron ore
Markets for goods produced in factories, its ? provided the needed markets

Colonies
The farmers were hurt by the enclosed movement of the?

Fencing in of public paster land
Farms needed fewer workers because of?

Improvements in the way crops were planted
These farmers moved to? Why?
- Cities
- For work
What was one of England's largest industries?

Textile industry
Cotton was made into thread by spinning it on a?

Spinning wheel
Thread was made into cloth by weaving it on a?

Loom
What invention replaced the ?pinning wheel and made it possible to spin thread rapidly

Spinning Jenny
Who invented the spinning jenny?

James Hargreaves
Weaving process was improved by invention of?

Power- operated weaving loom
What machine was invented for picking seeds out of cotton?

Cotton Gin
Who invented the cotton gin? (American)

Eli Whitney
Many early machines were operated by?

Water power
How did the steam engine operate?

By using coal
Who invented the modern steam engine?

James Watt
Who invented an inexpensive way to steel from iron?

Henry Bessemer
What largly replaced iron?

Steel

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