INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Flow chart of the causes of the

revolution
 Agricultural Revolution
• Use of fertilizer and improved technologies
like the seed drill produce more food.
• Food production is more efficient.
• Less farm laborers needed
• Excess food produced
 Population explosion
• People eat better
• Healthier and stronger woman have more
babies that survive.
• Less farm laborers produce and excess work
force.
• City populations grow
• Creates a demand for goods
 Energy Revolution
• Water wheels power new machines
• Coal used to fuel steam engines
• Faster production of goods
 Industrial Revolution
• The long and slow process in which
production shifted from hand tools to
complicated machines.
• This increased the size and importance of
cities.