What were the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Causes:
Small farmers moved to the city to provide labor. This made more openings for jobs and a higher demand for jobs leading to quicker and cheaper products.
Natural Resources were cheap in Britain because they used coal to power almost everything there. Some natural resources included; coal, rivers, iron ore, harbors, wood, which were all a necessity for the Industrial Revolution because they powered everything and the Industrial Revolution began in Britain because of the abundance of resources.
Britain had an expanding economy with rich business people investing in factories and machines to use them to create the products. The rich people allowed others to have necessities that were made in factories or by machines.
Britain had factors of production, which are the resources needed for the industrial revolution which included land, labor, and wealth. if Britain did not have these things they would not have been the first to start industrializing.
Steam engines powered trains which allowed people to travel quickly and let them get jobs and expand business out of their town/city it also let them transport goods in and out of Britain. This allowed industrialism ideas and ways to spread, and people gained more money from expanding their sales to outside of their town/city.
Banks helped people invest in machines or workers because of bank loans. People were now enabled to spend money they didn't have at the moment in an investment to get more money and pay back the loans from creating a business or inventions.
With the new farming inventions during theIndustrial Revolution and agricultural revolution farmers could farm more efficiently and produce a larger amount of crops to feed more people. This created healthier people and lives and helped keep people from diseases because they were not weak and were now eating to get proper nutrients in their bodies to increase life expectancy.
Effects:
Reforms in communism. Karl Marx made the idea of communism where everyone was made equal. So that means the rich and poor would no longer exist since everyone would be the same. Some of the poor loved the idea while the rich did not like it.
The communist manifesto by Karl Marx. He wrote this so people would read it and want their government to change to communism. It tells about the struggle between rich and poor and how he wants it to end.
Child Laborers. The jobs were so simple anyone could do them even children. And the working conditions were still bad at that time so there were hard working conditions for them.
Made more jobs such as simple factory jobs, and railroad jobs. Factory jobs were mostly taken up by the small town farmers that left their farms and moved to the city because factory jobs required little to no skills. Railroad jobs were also very easy to do and were quite simple to get.
It was easier to send and receive goods because of railroads. Railroads made it cheaper because it ran on steam engines and more efficient than any other transportation at that time.
Poop in the streets and living conditions were really bad. There was no way to dispose of waste which made the city really dirty. And since the population was growing rapidly many people had to live in a one room apartment that mostly contained around six people.
Cities were more crowded because many farmers moved to the city. And the amount of crops grown made food prices go down which allowed people to have bigger families and less people would starve.
People used machines to run factories because it is cheaper than paying workers even though there were still people that had to control and watch over the machine while it was in use.