"The English industrial revolution gave Western civilization not only new machines, but new forms of credit and a social class of people with surplus wealth.  Our contemporary consumer society is a direct outgrowth of these industrial innovations, and another link in the fascinating chain connecting modern society to its Greek roots." [from video jacket]

Ackworths in Yorkshire
Bank of England (1690)
Barclay's
Black, Joseph
Canals and railroads
Darby, Abraham
Dissenters
Duke of Bridgewater
Gainesborough (painter)
Great Britain (1707)
Jamaica
Lloyd's of London
Locke, John
Manchester (city)
"Navvies" (Irish laborers)
Reynolds (painter)
Scotland
"totalitarian landlords"
Union of England and Scotland (1707)
Watt, James
Wedgwood, Josiah

1. What were some of the new financial techniques used by English capitalists?  How did they make the Industrial Revolution possible?

2. What role did religious dissenters play in the development of the Industrial Revolution?

3. What role did Joseph Black play in the process of change?

4. How did the English plantations in the Caribbean and improvements in English farming at home help create the Industrial Revolution?

Extra Credit: One well-developed paragraph. (Due on the Tuesday following the video.)

What role did the middle class play in the process of change? (Should cover who they were and what they did.)