Which developments were characteristic of the industrial revolution and the events leading up to it

Answer: The answers are:

*Technological innovations

* Society

*Economic (banking) changes)

*A shift from agriculture to manufacturing

* Legal innovations.

Explanation:

Technological-In the early part of the Industrial Revolution natural power sources such as water and wind were used as power. Later, new power technologies such as a steam power and electricity played a major role in allowing the Industrial Revolution to grow.

Society-The transformation from large, rural, agrarian societies in Europe and America into industrialized, urban ones.

Even though many people in Britain had begun moving to the cities from rural areas before the Industrial Revolution, this process was accelerated with industrialization, as the rise of large factories turned smaller towns into major cities over the span of decades.

Economic-Banks and industrial financiers rose to new prominent during the period, as well as a factory system dependent on owners and managers.

Shift from agriculture to manufacturing- - Products that had once been carefully crafted by hand started to be produced in mass quantities by machines in factories,

Legal - The government responded differently to The industrial revolution negative effects, usually on the side of owners, in the name of public safety and order. The House of Commons continually rejected minimum wage laws put forward by workers.

With the government and owners initially unwilling to enact reforms, workers, reformers, and critics responded in their own way:

*rebelling,

*experimenting with new ways to organize work and society.