 Free Write: On a separate sheet of paper, write no less than 5 sentences identifying this object/place, explaining the functionality, purpose, and its positive and negative effects.

 As we begin out study on the Industrial Revolution, lets focus on the following theme for our discussion: › New technology leads to the first factories.

 Percentage of American women who say they’d marry the same man: 50%!  A Costa - Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about 2, per year. The average American pro baseball player earns 2,377,000 per year.  When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart.  The Worlds longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours!

 Due to advancements in technology, worldwide trade, and the increased demand for natural resources from around the world (Americas, Africa, and Asia), the Industrial Revolution will begin.  Industrial Revolution = An era beginning in Europe in the 1760s where factories will be created to process goods, machines will replace hand tools to make goods, and major, modern cities begin.

› Industry = Factories + workers = Major Change  The Industrial Revolution will begin in England (Europe), spread throughout the rest of Europe, and then spread to the United States.

 Before the Industrial Revolution began, Europeans worked on their personal farms or out of their own homes creating goods such as textiles (clothing) to sell. › Europeans lived in small villages where a majority of people where farmers.  A majority of people only grew food for their personal use, not for trade.

› Cottage System (cottage industry) – hired workers produce wool in the home for sale.  A local merchant would hire women in the home to spin wool and then collect it weekly from workers houses to sell.  Production of wool was very slow and inefficient in the cottage system.

 In the late 1800s, the British government began the British Enclosure Movement to produce large scale crops › Enclosure Movement – small village farmers land was taken and combined into larger, privately-owned (enclosed) farms.  Positive! = On the larger, privately owned farms, the production of crops grew using new technologies and crop rotation.  Negative! = Small town farmers were now left landless and jobless.

 Also in the late 1800s, the demand for wool skyrocketed.  British merchants had to devise a method to produce wool faster/efficiently and at a center location instead of in numerous workers homes. › Solution! = Develop factories with machines to create to wool faster and cheaper. › The factory system will destroy the cottage industry.

 Rats destroy 1/3 rd of the world’s food supply each year.  As a teenager, actor – writer Matt Damon earned extra cash by begin a sidewalk break – dancer.  In the original version of Cinderella the slipper was made out of fur, not glass.  One of of three employees who received a promotion use a coffee mug with the company logo on it.

 Steam Engine – Invented by James Watt, factories now had a power source to run machines for the production of goods.  Spinning Jenny – Invented by James Hargreaves, this machine spun numerous balls of yarn, producing cloth faster. › This design will influence future machine development.

 Cotton Gin – Invented by Eli Whitney, cotton is cleaned of seeds quicker and ready for production.  Henry Bessemer – Invents a new process for making steel. › New steel is used to develop railroads, bridges, machines, and skyscrapers.

 The Industrial Revolution begins in England because: › Natural Resources (coal, iron ore, timber) › New technologies used in factories (steam engine) › An unemployed work force (because of Enclosure Movement) to run the machines in factories. › Money (capital) and growing economy

 World –Wide competition for natural resources skyrockets by countries. › The more raw materials obtained, the more goods that can be produced in factories.  The Industrial Revolution will begin in Europe and then spread to the U.S.  New technologies help begin the Industrial Revolution