The patent laws encouraged people to invent because they could finally benefit from their own inventions; people wouldn't have to work and could focus on their success. Inventors could monopolize their new field of work and make actual money influencing people to invent their ideas that were brought about by their open-mind set from the Enlightenment ideas. The last major cause of the Industrial Revolution was the financial innovations that had taken place. The people were encouraged to put their money towards new technologies created. They could "take risks with investments, trade," (page 29) and allow the investors to succeed. Businesses had money to manufacture more products at faster rates causing the factories to boom in England's cities. Factories were a main effect of the Industrial Revolution and were extremely important to the Revolution. The ideas of the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution, government patent laws, and the financial innovations were the main causes of the Industrial Revolution because of their effects.
The immediate effects of the Industrial Revolution were rapid urbanization, people living in horrifying living conditions as well as working conditions, and child labor. Urbanization to the definition is "the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). People- came to live in the cities because of the lack of jobs in the countryside. The Agricultural Revolution resulted in an increased amount of food in England and in effect, the population increased. People needed jobs so they went to the cities to get jobs in the factories that had recently opened in the start of the Industrial Revolution. With huge amounts of people moving to the cities, the areas eventually became extremely crowded and that lead to many problems. One of the problems being the cleanliness of the people and their living conditions.
