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The industries set up after the French and American Revolutions
The acceleration of technical and economic development that begun in Britain around 1750
Where all the poorly paid industrial workers finally had enough and all stopped work at once around 5.30 in the afternoon
Heavy manufacturing, lots of pollution
Water powered factories, some pollution
Based on agriculture, growing and selling produce
A landowners class
An urban middle class
An urban working class
New materials, new energy sources and new machinery
Improved transport, division of labour and new employer-employee relationships
A reduction in the manufacturing section, combined with an increase in primary production
Improved knowledge due to better education
A population willing to fight for their rights
Increased wealth of the new manufacturing classes
Countryside
Urban areas
Coastal ports
The canal transportation industry
The textile industry
The railways
The agricultural industry
The railways replacing the canals
Steam replacing water power
Machinery replacing people
Benjamin Franklin
Eli Whitney
Samuel Crompton
James Watt
Robert Boyle
Thomas Newcomen
Cooper
Gold
Iron
Enclosure Acts
Corn Laws
Labor Laws
Many people farm new crops
People had to learn how to raise bigger sheep
People had to leave their homes in order to go to work
By hand and animal power
By machine
Assembly line in factories
They use wind power now
Steam powered the machines
The rivers dried up in the summer