Industrial Revolution DBQ

Industrial Revolution (DBQ) England, the lead world superpower at the time, had both the financial and intellectual resources available to put into research and development for Industrial Revolution to begin in England. Being an economic beacon they tended to attract the smartest and most motivated individuals, who were in need of work, to England. Economic pressures in the textile business, which England dominated, started to drive toward industrialized factories. The increase of economic efficiently drove the Machine Age forward. England is filled with an abundant amount of wool, iron, and coal which contributed to England economics’ accomplishments. For example, iron allowed England is machines to make coal, which fueled the machines. Also, wool the macho man of the economy, due to the amount of textiles produced uplifted England’s economy a boat load (Doc.1&4). From a humanitarian point of view, and as a matter of public health, the cotton gin released millions of slaves from the drudgery of separating cotton balls from seeds. This interaction help made the cotton underwear, bedding, and bandages cheap for the first time in human history. Apart from a better existence for African slaves in America, the availability of cheaper cotton probably saved tens of thousands of lives across Europe and the New World from childbed fever, typhus and infected wounds. Second, the contribution of the spinning jenny. It enabled cotton spinning to sift to from a small-scale cottage industry to an industrialized environment. Dependent on women work who had busy and grim lives, even before its invention. Afterwards, spinning became a major industry that could keep pace with the cotton production and an occupation later became for men. In that sense, a women's present part-time occupation became the basis for a major industry. Third, I will discuss the power loom which caused the whole productive