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Chapter 10. Industrialization and Nationalism. Enduring Questions. How can innovation affect ways of life ? How does revolution bring about political and economic change?. Guiding Question. What was the significance of the Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain ?
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Chapter 10 Industrialization and Nationalism
Enduring Questions • How can innovation affect ways of life? • How does revolution bring about political and economic change?
Guiding Question • What was the significance of the Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain? • Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Great Britain? • What factors fed the spread of industrialization in Europe and North America? • What was the social impact of industrialization in Europe?
I. The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain • What was the significance of the Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain? • Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Great Britain?
Agricultural Revolution • Started in 1780s- 5 factors: • Agricultural Revolution- • Increase in food supply- expansion of farmland, good weather, improved transportation, new crops • Lower price in food with less labor • Could buy manufactured goods • Machines replaced human labor
Population grew • Urbanization – Movement of people to cities • Peasants moved to towns • Capital • Ready supply of money • Invested in new machines and factories • Entrepreneurs – people who start their own business
Natural resources • Rivers= water power for factories and transportation of raw materials • Coal and iron ore • Supply of markets • Colonies • Ship goods • Domestic markets increased • Tenement Buildings - Apartments
A. Cotton Production and New Factories • Cottage industry- tasks done by individuals in rural homes • Inexpensive way to manufacture cloth goods
Inventions made cottage industry inefficient • Spinning jenny- faster thread production • Water-powered loom- faster weaving of cloth • Steam engine- faster machines
Water-powered loom Spinning jenny Steam engine
B. Coal, Iron, and Railroads • Steam engine- crucial to the IR and relied on coal
Railroads- locomotives used to transport more goods quickly • New jobs created • Less expensive transportation lower-priced goods larger markets • More sales more demand more need for factories and machines • Regular, ongoing economic growth is the basic feature of the industrial economy
What was the significance of the Agricultural Revolution in Great Britain? • Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Great Britain?
II. The Spread of Industrialization • What factors fed the spread of industrialization in Europe and North America?
Great Britain- the first industrialized nation in the world • Richest nation • ½ of world’s coal and manufactured goods • Cotton industry = industries of all European countries combined
Belgium, France, and German states next to be industrialized • Governments promoted it
IR reaches America in the first half of the 19th century • Increase in population increase in cities • Good transportation system created • Roads, canals, and steamboats to connect east and west • Railroad- most important development in American transportation; continental U.S.
What factors fed the spread of industrialization in Europe and North America?
III. Social Impact of Industrialization • What was the social impact of industrialization in Europe?
A. Population Growth and Urbanization • European population doubled (1750- 140 mill. people/ 1850- 266 mill.) • Decline in death rates, wars, epidemic diseases and increase in food supply
Migration • Global migration- large movement of peoples across the globe • Famine and poverty caused move to America
Europe • Industrialization and urbanization in Europe • Movement of people from countryside to cities to work in factories • London became the largest city 2.5 million people • 50% of population live in town and cities
B. New Social Classes • Industrial capitalism- economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing • Industrial middle class- people who built factories, bought machines, developed markets • Industrial working class- awful working conditions; 12-16 hour work days/6 days a week, no minimum wage, no job security, cramped conditions
Role of women and children • 2/3 of cotton industry workforce • Factory Act of 1833- minimum age at 9 and limited work hours for children • After 1833- women 50% of workforce in textile factories, paid ½ or less than men • After change in work hours- women took daily care of children and worked low-paying jobs at home while men became income earners
C. Early Socialism • Socialism- economic system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls some means of production • Karl Marx – wrote book called Communist Manifesto • Popular belief among lower class citizens
Labor Unions • Were formed as a result of the changing nature of work • Labor union - legally recognized as representatives of workers in many industries in the United States • Sought to address issues such as working conditions, wages and terms of employment.
Collective Bargaining • Concept of creating contract between employers and workers • Employees negotiate working conditions and salary terms with their bosses • If terms cannot be met, workers go on strike
Problems in Society • Several problems occurred in society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a result of the following: • Industrial capitalism • Urbanization • Political corruption
Farmer’s Alliance and Populism in U.S. • Populism: siding with the “people” over the “elites” • Established as a reaction to poor conditions resulting from industrialization • Based among poor white cotton farmers in the south and wheat farmers in the Great Plaines • Showed hostility to banks, railroads, and elites • Populist party selected William Jennings Bryan as a presidential candidate
Muckrackers • Journalists who exposed • Political corruption • Corporate and industrial practices • Social injustice in urban America
Anti-Trust Laws • Antitrust legislation – meant to regulate the actions of corporations and businesses • Monopoly – when one business controls all aspects of production for a product
Pure Food and Drug Act • Prevented the sale of misbranded or altered food and drug products • Ensured meat products were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions
Federal Reserve Act • Created the central banking system of the United States • Controls the money supply in the United States
Progressive Reforms in U.S. • Conservation gains (U.S. Forest Service/National Park Service) • Made political process more democratic • 16th Amendment – power of Congress to levy income taxes • 17th Amendment – direct election of U.S. Senators • 18th Amendment – Prohibition of alcoholic beverage sales • 19th Amendment – women’s suffrage rights