Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why Great Britain Started the
Industrial Revolution
- Natural Rescources
- Coal, iron ore, etc.
- Labour
- enclosure movement
- population continued to grow
- better tarnsportation
- allowed people to move to cities
- Capital
- industrial revolution grew
- money made in early industries
- reinvested
- Markets
- end of FR and Napoleons wars
- opened continent up to British products
- Latin American wars of independance
- opened markets of Central and South America
- US and Canada
demanded British
products
- Control of India
- commanded the markets of
Southern Asia
- Transportation
- canals
- railways (1830s and 40s)
- Entrepreneurship
- strong middle class
- liberal nobles
- willing to invest money
- Government Support
- strong navy
- protects merchant ships
- commercially minded government
- few laws to restrict what entrepreneurs did