Major social effects of the
Industrial Revolution
(1760 - 1840)
Rapid urbanization 
Mechanical/technological inventions fro farmings
Factories 
Increased production of goods
Efficiency
Dependence on manual labor was reduced 
Wealth
(capitalists)
Increased wages
Demand for workers
People move to the cities
Jethro Tull’s inventions 
seed drill
horse drawn cultivator
Enclosure Acts
landowners can buy pieces of common land from the government
Richard Arkwright’s invention (father of the factory)
The Water Frame
Transition from agrarian economy to manufacturing economy
Cheaper goods
Better living standards
Social services (stores, churches, schools, etc.)
Change in social structure
Nouveau riche