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Key ingredients for Industrialization:

Key ingredients for Industrialization: . Intro Industrial Revolution. 1. What would your life be like without a car, computer, or mp3 player or CD player? 2. How has technology impacted your life? 2b – What are some of the negative aspects of technology.

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Key ingredients for Industrialization:

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  1. Key ingredients for Industrialization:

  2. Intro Industrial Revolution 1. What would your life be like without a car, computer, or mp3 player or CD player? 2. How has technology impacted your life? 2b – What are some of the negative aspects of technology. 3. What type of workforce do you need to produce such things as computers, software programs, automobiles etc?

  3. Intro Industrial Revolution 3. What type of workforce do you need to produce such things as computers, software programs, automobiles etc? 4. What types of natural resources/materials do you need to make the items listed in question #3? 5. What does the future have in store for us? What kind of changes do you think will happen in your life time?...what invention(s) will revolutionize the 21st century?

  4. Intro Industrial Revolution • What happened to those countries that were slow to industrialize in the 1700 & 1800s? Definition: A change from an agrarian (farming) society to one based on industry (producing goods for sale), which began to Great Britain and spread to the United States around 1800.

  5. Key ingredients for Industrialization: Natural Resources Access to coal, iron, and water Capital Financial Access to money (loans) Human Healthy mobile labor force. Property Land/buildings Goods Items things you need to make a product

  6. Key ingredients for Industrialization: Markets Need to be able to sell your products. Transportation Systems Ways to move goods efficiently. (Water & Rail)

  7. Why Great Britain? Factors Natural Resources Coal, Iron, Water. Large Labor force Improvements in food production (potato), mortality rate (death rate) decrease – population rate increase Capital Access to money, goods, property – established banking system.

  8. Why Great Britain? Factors Markets Vast empire of Colonies – forced to purchase British-manufactured goods. Government Support Government sponsored infrastructure projects (roads, canals) taxes lowered, patents protected. Social mobility Hope for the hard working poor; could move up in society.

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