The Industrial Revolution

1. The Industrial Revolution The Rise of Industry Standard 7-3.4

2. Industrialism While political revolutions swept through Europe and the Americas, an economic revolution shook the world. It resulted in what is known as industrialism, a system based on the use of machines rather than on animal and human power.

3. Where did industrialism begin? Industrialism started in Great Britain during the 1700s. Within the next 200 years, it spread to other parts of the world. The system changed life so much that historians call these changes the Industrial Revolution.

4. Seeds for Industry Sweeping changes in farming, known as the Agricultural Revolution, helped industry to take root in England, or Great Britain. The Agricultural Revolution started in the 1700s with the enclosure movement. This movement began when Parliament allowed large landowners to fence off common lands. In the past, landowners had rented small strips of land to farming families.

5. Enclosure Movement Through enclosure, landowners could combine the strips of land. Landowners often did one of two things. Some planted large areas of land with a single crop that produced bigger profits. Others turned land into pastures to graze sheep. They sold the wool to make textiles, or woven cloth.

6. Other changes in farming contributed to the Agricultural Revolution included… Knowledge of crop rotation, or rotating crops on three fields instead of two. The rotation kept soil fertile and more crops could be grown. Invention of a seed drill by Jethro Tull. The drill allowed farmers to plant rows of seeds rather than scattering them over the fields. Breeding of stronger horses for farm work and fatter sheep and cattle for meat.

7. Capital and Labor 1 • These changes in farming created conditions favorable to industry—the use of raw materials to manufacture, or create, goods. • Landowners now had more capital, or money, to invest. • This increased the capital already earned by colonial merchants through trade. • Many landowners and merchants invested their own money in manufacturing or other businesses.

8. Capital and Labor 2 The enclosure movement forced many peasants off their land. Thousands of farmers moved to cities to find work. This increase in the number of people living in the city created a larger labor supply, or number of available workers, for businesses. Improved methods of farming and breeding produced more food, which helped people live longer, healthier lives. Britain’s population grew, causing the labor supply to grow even more.

9. Natural Resources and Markets 1 (Why Britain?) In addition to capital and labor, Great Britain was rich in natural resources. It possessed rivers that flowed year-round. These rivers powered the earliest machines. They also provided a transportation network that connected inland areas to coastal harbors.

10. Natural Resources and Markets 2 (Why Britain?) Britain also had huge supplies of coal and iron. In the years ahead, coal would replace wood as a source of fuel for running machines. Iron would be used to build machines and to make steel. Finally, Britain had the markets in which to sell manufactured goods. It had a huge empire and the ships to sail to ports around the world. With a growing population, it also had a big home market.

11. Rise of the Factory System A series of inventions was the last ingredient for industrialism to occur. These inventions encouraged the switch from handmade to machine-made goods.

12. Machines Machines first showed up in the production of textiles. In the past, workers produced cloth under what is known as the cottage industry, or domestic industry. Merchants went from cottage to cottage, bringing sheep wool to workers. Using hand-powered spinning wheels and looms, the workers spun and wove the wool into cloth in their own homes. Merchants returned later and picked up the finished textiles to sell.

13. Rise of the Factory System 2 Because this method of production proved too slow, inventors developed ways to spin faster and to run machines with waterpower. Textile merchants now build factories near rivers and streams. This trend was the beginning of the factory system: a method of production that brought machines and workers together in one place.

14. Coal-Powered Machines With the invention of coal-powered machines, factories could be built anywhere. Whole towns grew up around factories. This sparked the growth of urbanization, or the movement of people from rural areas to cities. Britain was the first country to become urbanized, meaning more people lived in cities than on farms.

15. Spread of Industrialism 1 • At first Britain tried to guard its industrial secrets. • Parliament passed laws banning the export of machines and the movement of skilled workers to other countries. • The laws failed. Skilled British workers saw the opportunity to make more money elsewhere. • They left Britain and took their industrial skills with them. • By the 1800s, Great Britain had given up efforts to create a monopoly, or total control, of industry. • British investors saw a chance to earn even more money by funding industries elsewhere. • They set up factories and built railroads in other parts of the world.

16. Spread of Industry 2 • In the mid-1800s, one British leader called Great Britain ‘the workshop of the world.” • Britain, however, had stiff competition from new industrial powers such as in the United States and Germany. • Another competitor emerged in Asia in the late 1800s and early 1900s. • Japan had its own Industrial Revolution. • It industrialized everything from textiles to shipbuilding. • The government and industrialists, know as zaibatsu, adopted a new slogan: “rich country, strong army.”

17. Industry in the United States, Germany, and Japan.

18. Impact of Industrialism 1 • Growth of Cities: • Rise of Industrial Capitalism:

19. Impact of Industrialism 2 • New methods of organizing business: • Rise of an industrial working class:

20. Impact of Industrialism 3 • Rise of Trade Unions: • Development of Socialism:

21. Inventions and Technology in the "Machine Age" Standard 7-3.5