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Indistrial Revolution

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  • Which was the main social factor?
    Move from rural to urban areas to work in factories.
  • Which were the most well known inventions from this period?
    Steam Engine and Spinning Jenny
  • What was the main characteristic of IR? How did labor change?
    Labor changed from manual and agrarian to mechanized and industrial.
  • Which was the major consequence of IR?
    Environmental effect.
  • Which was a key event that led to IR?
    Agricultural Revolution
  • Explain economic factors
    Growth of trade and markets, technological advances required capital, increase of textile production and factory systems.
  • Which were the main factors that led to IR?
    Economic, political and social.
  • Which was the impact in societies?
    Introduced urbanizations and a new labor system.
  • Why are industires and labor movements related?
    The raise of industries led to the creation of labor movements to defend workers rights.
  • Why was the improvement of roads, canals and railways so important for IR?
    Because it facilitated the movement of goods, reduced cost and time and made markets expand rapidly.
  • Why was the Industrial Revolution so important?
    Because it transfromed economy, technology and society.
  • What characterized pre-industrial England?
    Agrarian economy and craftmanship. Farming. People lived in rural areas