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AIM: What was the global impact of the Industrial Revolution?

AIM: What was the global impact of the Industrial Revolution?. Ms. McMillan Global III December 13, 2011. A WAVE OF MIGRATION. Improvements in transportation, population growth, and social and political conditions led to a wave of global migrations from about 1845 through the early 1900s.

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AIM: What was the global impact of the Industrial Revolution?

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  1. AIM: What was the global impact of the Industrial Revolution? Ms. McMillan Global III December 13, 2011

  2. A WAVE OF MIGRATION • Improvements in transportation, population growth, and social and political conditions led to a wave of global migrations from about 1845 through the early 1900s. • Polish nationalists fled Poland for Western Europe and the United States after the Russian army crushed the revolt of 1830.

  3. Several thousand Germans moved to cities in the United States after the failed revolutions of 1848.

  4. Russian Jews, escaping pogroms, left Eastern Europe. Rosh Hashanah greeting card from the early 1900s. Russian Jews, packs in hand, gaze at relatives beckoning them to the United States.

  5. Italian farmers, seeing economic opportunity, also traveled to the Americas.

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  7. Mass Starvation in Ireland • Another migration occurred from Ireland. • Under British rule, the majority of Irish farmland had been used to grow crops, such as wheat and oats, which were sent to England. • The Irish used the potato as their main food crop. • In 1845, a disease destroyed the potato crop (other crops were not affected). • The British continued to ship the other products out of Ireland. • Four years later, 1 million Irish had died of starvation or disease; millions of others moved to the USA and Canada.

  8. Movement Toward a Global Economy • By the mid 1800s, the Industrial Revolution had moved beyond Britain and new powers were emerging. • As nations became strong industrially, they competed for a share of wealth in the markets around the world. • Manufacturers traded with other countries for resources they needed. • Steamships and railroads, and then automobiles and airplanes, made global trade easier and quicker. • As markets expanded around the world and global trade increased, a new imperialism developed.

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