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How did British cities change due to the Industrial Revolution?
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The growth of industrial cities: 18th - 19th century AD
The availability of work in Britain's mills and factories, particularly after the introduction of steam power, has the effect of drawing ever-increasing numbers of people from the countryside into rapidly expanding cities. Manchester and the closely related town of Salford have 25,000 inhabitants between them in 1772. In 1821 the joint population is 181,000. By 1851 this conurbation has grown to 455,000.
The growth of Manchester's textile industry brings equivalent prosperity to the nearby port of Liverpool - just in time since the slave trade, the previous source of Liverpool's wealth, is made illegal in 1807. Cotton saves the day. Eight new docks are built in Liverpool between 1815 and 1835.
The amount of raw cotton brought ashore in Liverpool shows a threefold increase between 1820 and 1850, from half a million bales a year to 1.5 million. There is a comparable rise in the population - with a leap of 60% in a single decade, the 1840s, from 250,000 to 400,000 inhabitants.
The other great industrial city of the era, Birmingham, starts from a lower base. Its population increases from 86,000 to 233,000 between 1801 and 1851. Birmingham's interests are broader than those of Lancashire, where textiles predominate. Birmingham is blessed with an abundance of coal, iron and wood in the immediate neighbourhood, and with a position at the very heart of England.
Birmingham's real potential is realized only with the arrival of the railway. The line to London is completed in 1838. By then the city's workshops, specializing in metal-based industries, are ready to supply a wider market. A French visitor in 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville, describes the place as 'an immense workshop, a huge forge', where one sees only 'busy people and faces brown with smoke' and hears 'nothing but the sound of hammers and the whistle of steam escaping from boilers'.
To a detached observer the Industrial Revolution can seemromantic in the 1780s and fascinatingly strange in the 1830s. But it is also becoming evident that it creates an environment in which it can be extremely unpleasant to work.
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How did the industrial revolution change life in cities?
The Industrial Revolution changed life in cities by raising populations. The Industrial Revolution also raised the standard of living for most city dwellers due to growth in the job markets.
What was the industrial revolution part in change in pattern of human settlements?
It drawed people from agricultural life to the cities
in which cities did the industrial revolution take place?
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Which social change occurred during the industrial revolution?
The social change that was brought about during the early industrial revolution was the emergence of the middle class and the working class. It brought more jobs to the cities and improved living conditions for many people.
What cities grew the most during the Industrial Revolution?
Birmingham and Manchester were two cities that grew the most
How did the industrial revolution change life in cities?
The Industrial Revolution changed life in cities by raising populations. The Industrial Revolution also raised the standard of living for most city dwellers due to growth in the job markets.
Why did people flock British cities and towns during the industrial revolution?
Think about all the jobs that were there.
What was the industrial revolution part in change in pattern of human settlements?
It drawed people from agricultural life to the cities
Cities conditions during the Industrial Revolution could best be described as?
Many cities during the Industrial Revolution were overcrowded and unsanitary. The Industrial Revolution began in 1760. In terms of employment, textiles were the main industry.
in which cities did the industrial revolution take place?
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Which social change occurred during the industrial revolution?
The social change that was brought about during the early industrial revolution was the emergence of the middle class and the working class. It brought more jobs to the cities and improved living conditions for many people.
What cities grew the most during the Industrial Revolution?
Birmingham and Manchester were two cities that grew the most
Which of the following was not an issue in big cities during the Industrial Revolution?
poor sanitation and health problemsWhich of the following was not an issue in big cities during the Industrial Revolution?
Why do you call the Industrial Age a revolution?
Revolutions often bring radical change to the world. The Industrial Revolution changed the society from one that was mainly agrarian to an industrial one. People left the farms and migrated to the cities to compete for jobs in factories.
Why did people flock to british cities and towns during the industrial revolution?
i think that they entered the cononiy and beat them up
What were the impacts of the industrial revolution with the size of cities?
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The Industrial Revolution resulted in?
the movement of people to the cities
