WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
A
The Textile Industry in England
B
The farming industry in France
C
The Factory System in America
D
Steel Industry in Germany
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines in the United Kingdom.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Upper Priory Cotton Mill, opened in Birmingham, England in the summer of 1741, was the world’s first mechanised cotton-spinning factory or cotton mill.

Detailed explanation-3: -The British textile industry drove the Industrial Revolution, triggering advancements in technology, stimulating the coal and iron industries, boosting raw material imports, and improving transportation, which made Britain the global leader of industrialization, trade, and scientific innovation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Industrialized manufacturing began in New England, where wealthy merchants built water-powered textile mills (and mill towns to support them) along the rivers of the Northeast. These mills introduced new modes of production centralized within the confines of the mill itself.

Detailed explanation-5: -Textile manufacturing played a major role in the industrial revolution. The production and increase of cloth climbed quickly because it changed from handlooms to factories and machines, which allowed for more time to be spent on other things, so output increased rapidly.

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