Ap Euro Dbq Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain during the late 18th Century due to it’s indefinite source of coal and iron resources and geographic location. This change from a domestic to a factory system had positive but also negative effects on Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution had an overall positive economic impact because of the advancements in the production and transport of goods. The advancements in the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution led to positive economic changes in Great Britain. In Document 1, the first picture shows clothing being made in a home by skilled clothing manufacturers. This was known as a domestic system where goods were made in the home. However everything started to change when inventions
During the early stages of the Industrialization, factories were exclusively built near bodies of water. When Great Britain found out about coal and how it could be used to fuel machinery away from water, it marked the invention of the steam engine. According to Document 3 “Steam-engines moreover, by the cheapness and steadiness of their action, fabricate [produce] cheap goods.” Along with cheap goods and making necessary products of life, factories also produced more goods quicker via assembly line and mass production (O.I.) This allowed for less skilled workers since all they had to do is one job (O.I.) As a result of steam engines being implemented into factories allowed much more products to be produced for
The Industrial Revolution shifted the economy from a domestic system in which goods were exclusively produced in the home by skilled people to a factory system in which machines coincided with people to get the task done. Factories produced goods faster and cheaper than skilled artists and both railroads and canals were used to transport the goods everywhere. It created a national market and the economy boomed as a result. If industrialization never happened, cities would have never developed due to the huge growth of the