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Bellringer. Page 65: Write down the answers to the following questions on a paper titled “ Bellringer 1/4/12”: 1. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England? 2. What was the Industrial Revolution? 3. What was the Agricultural Revolution? 4. What were cottage industries?

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Bellringer

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  1. Bellringer Page 65: Write down the answers to the following questions on a paper titled “Bellringer 1/4/12”: 1. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England? 2. What was the Industrial Revolution? 3. What was the Agricultural Revolution? 4. What were cottage industries? • BJOTD: Did you hear about the plumber who worked on top of a skyscraper?

  2. Objectives • SWBAT: use primary source documents to investigate the positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution

  3. The Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution

  4. Working Conditions and Wages

  5. Positive • Negative

  6. Additional Notes • Labor Unions: groups that worked together to help improve conditions for workers • Unions would organize strikes to demand changes • Collective bargaining: workers and management worked together to find a compromise

  7. Child Labor

  8. Positive • Negative

  9. Additional Notes • Reforms were passed in the mid-1800s to reform child labor • Factory Act of 1833: • 9-12 years old—less than 8 hours • 13-17 years old—less than 12 hours • 1919: Child Labor Law and Minimum Wage Laws

  10. Changing Role of Women

  11. Positive • Negative

  12. Additional Notes • Although women were treated poorly, they often joined unions to fight for their rights. • Women fought for the right to vote (suffrage) by the end of the 19th century.

  13. Conditions in the Coal Mines

  14. Positive • Negative

  15. Urbanization: the movement from rural to urban areas

  16. Positive • Negative • Additional note: this caused the rise of pollution!

  17. Education

  18. Positive • Negative

  19. Changing Class Structure

  20. Positive • Negative

  21. Industrial Production

  22. Positive • Negative

  23. Additional Notes • Inventions: • Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin • James Watt and the Steam Engine • James Hargreaves and the spinning jenny • Robert Fulton and the Steam Engine • Movement spread from GB to Europe and then the USA • Slavery was ended first in GB too, then in USA in 1865

  24. Modern Inventions

  25. Positive • Negative

  26. Processing • Overall, do you feel that the Industrial Revolution helped or harmed society as a whole? Defend your answer.

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