5.2 Britain Leads the Way

I. Why Britain?

•Natural Resources- Britain had a plentiful supply of coal and iron

•Transportation- Britain had lots of ports and rivers

I. Why Britain cont.

•Capital-money used to invest in enterprises

•Enterprises- business organization•Entrepreneurs- businessman that

assumes risk of new business•Britain had lots of all of these

II. The Textile Industry Advances

•Textiles-cloth and clothing •Putting out system- system where cotton

would be distributed to peasant cottages to be spun (what they had before)

•How did they improve▫ Eli Whitney invents cotton gin a device

that separates seeds from cotton▫Flying Shuttle▫Spinning Jenny▫The water frame

III. The Transportation Revolution

•Turnpikes-private roads that charge a toll•Canals-connected the river system•Steam Locomotive-began the growth of

the railway system could go places rivers could not

The Industrial Revolution Begins: Section 2Color Transparency 113: Canals in Britain 1800

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The Industrial Revolution Begins: Section 2Color Transparency 114: The Growth of Railways in Great Britain, 1840 and 1850

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The Industrial Revolution Begins: Section 2Note Taking Transparency 128

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