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World Civilization. Qtr. 2 Common Assessment. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain. Sufficient coal & iron ore reserves existed A good transportation system existed Large populations were available. Factors that drove the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. Land Labor
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World Civilization Qtr. 2 Common Assessment
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain • Sufficient coal & iron ore reserves existed • A good transportation system existed • Large populations were available.
Factors that drove the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain • Land • Labor • capital
Agricultural changes led to the Industrial Revolution • Produced more food with fewer workers
The first industrialized business • Textile production
Inventions • Watt-steam engine (upper right) • Pasteur – pasteurization (killing harmful microbes in milk by heating) • Eli Whitney – cotton gin (lower right) • James Hargreaves – spinning jenny • Jethro Tull – seed drill
Effect of the Industrial Revolution on the environment • Level of air & Water pollution often increase • Dirty & Unsanitary conditions • Severe discipline & unsafe working conditions
The cause of major changes in Europe beginning in the mid-1700s • The Industrial Revolution
Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism& Communism • Feudalism – a political, economic & social system of medieval Europe based on land worked by serfs and held by vassals who gave military & other services to overlords • Capitalism – an economic system on private ownership and on investment of move in business ventures in order to make a profit • Communism – an economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist, all goods & services are shared equally.
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels • German Economic philosophers who believed that communism would eventually produce a classless society • ( a society of all workers, no bourgeoisie)
Political and economic belief encouraged the following statement: “The proletarians (lower class) have nothing to lose but their chains…Workers of the world unite!” • Communism
Charles Dicken’s novel Hard Times describes… • The Industrial Revolution
Unions • Voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms
Positive effects of the Industrial Revolution (long-term) • Rise in the standard of living