HIST 1215 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: The Communist Manifesto, Emmeline Pankhurst, Louis Pasteur
1 Mar 2018
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Favorable natural resources (coal. iron, ore, rivers, etc. ) Agricultural revolution ~early 1800s population pressure. Growth of the manufacturing sector cottage industry (family business) Advantages in global trade colonies, connections, etc. Government support of business capitalism (adam smith"s wealth of. Nations (1776) promoted private enterprise and free markets) Economic advantages: central bank, well developed credit market, governments encouraged technological change and free markets supported capitalism, labor surplus, built railroads, canals, and better roads. First factories built on rivers for trade and power purposes. Coal production rose (1750: 2. 5 mill tons, 1828: 15 mill tons) originally relied on muscle power, but later helped by animal power and rail carts. Children worked in many mines smaller people, pay less, etc. As industry grew, the working class began to congregate in urban areas. New techniques and practices crop rotation, using horses, enclosure movement farming became a science many metal farming tools. Seed drill (jethro tull) planted seeds faster.
