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The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution. 1700-1914. Living From the Land Industrial Revolution: A Harsh Way of Life Pre-Industrial Revolution Farming = Death Rate – London – Conditions written about in the stories and novels of Village Life Wealthy control Results = 1) 2) Joint crops

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The Industrial Revolution

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  1. The Industrial Revolution 1700-1914 • Living From the Land • Industrial Revolution: • A Harsh Way of Life • Pre-Industrial Revolution • Farming = • Death Rate – • London – • Conditions written about in the stories and novels of • Village Life • Wealthy control • Results = • 1) • 2) • Joint crops • No fences = • Graze livestock • Village Life (cont.) • Self-sufficiency • Rich landowners – • Poorer villagers • Center of life = • Whole family contributed Draw here a typical farming community in pre-Industrial Revolution Europe:

  2. The Industrial Revolution 1700-1914 • Early Industries • Making wool in the • Merchant buys • Mining coal • Coal fields = • Labor = • Money from mining • The Beginnings of Change • Landowners want to • - • Enclosure Movement = • Allows landowners to: Draw a crop rotation diagram here: Draw a diagram for the “cottage industry” (or domestic system” here:

  3. The Industrial Revolution 1700-1914 • Great Britain Leads the Way • Success in farming = • Capital = • Parliament passes laws to • Natural resources • Weather – • Good for • Iron • Better farming = • Farm machinery – • Entrepreneurs = • Growing Textile Industries • Advances in machinery • John Kay = • James Hargreaves = • Richard Awkright = • Samuel Compton = • Producing more cloth • Edmund Cartwright = • Eli Whitney = • Invention of • The Factory System • Cloth production • More sources of energy need to run factories • James Watt = • Set Industrial Revolution in

  4. The Industrial Revolution 1700-1914 • Industrial Developments • Henry Bessemer and William Kelly = • Improvements to • Thomas Telford and John McAdam = • Canals • Robert Fulton = • Richard Trevithick = • The Growth of Big Business • Adam Smith • Free enterprise = • Industrial capitalism = • Mass Production • Eli Whitney = • Frederick Taylor = • Henry Ford = • Organizing Business • Partnerships • Corporations • Stockholders and shares • Became • Spread of Industry • Great Britain – • Industrialization spreads to • France – • Why? = • Germany = • United States • Where? • Three most industrialized nations =

  5. The Industrial Revolution 1700-1914 • Science and Industry • Communications • Samuel Morse = • James Clerk Maxwell = • Guglielmo Marconi = • Alexander Graham Bell = • Electricity • Thomas Edison = • Energy and Engines • Gottlieb Daimler = • Rudolf Diesel = • Ferdinand von Zeppelin = • Wilbur and Orville Wright = • A New Society • The Rise of the Middle Class • Before industrialization: • After industrialization: • Education = • Middle class lifestyles – • Men = • Women = • Magazines • Boys = • Girls =

  6. The Industrial Revolution 1700-1914 • Lives of the Working Class • At the mercy of machinery • Division of labor - • Lost limbs • Rigid schedules – • Very low wages • Workers lives • Children – • Women – • Cold, crowded • Poor hygiene – • High infant • Lives of the Working Class • Workers unite • Labor unions – • Union tactics • Stikes, • Opposition from • Parliament – • 1820’s – • Collective bargaining = • Membership continued

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