Intro to the Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution True or False: The Industrial Revolution began in the U.S. It began in BRITAIN around 1780 It changed EVERYTHING !!!! Labor -Clothing -Transportation Farming -Housing -Cooking Caused by Less INFANT MORTALITY International Trade SCIENTIFITC Revolution More efficient farming RAILROADS Britain, 1780, everything, infant mortality, Scientific, Railroads!

What Was Needed For Industrialization to Occur Technology Machines taking over for PEOPLE AND ANIMALS Necessity - “Necessity is the mother of invention” MONEY Labor force – people to do the work RAW MATERIALS Needed to build, invent, and produce goods Markets – a place to SELL products RAILROADS Got the products to markets Efficient farms – why?? People and animals, Money, Raw Materials, sell, Railroads

The Revolution Spreads Britain, to protect their economic dominance, prohibited the EXPORT of machines and machine operators In 1789, a factory employee (Samuel Slater) disguised himself and escaped to America where he opened a cotton mill in Rhode Island in 1793 The U.S contributed the ASSEMBLY LINE to the Revolution, which led to mass production which is High WAGES Low PRICES Large OUTPUT Export, 1793, assembly line, wages, prices, output

Japan and the Revolution The Industrial Revolution reached Japan in 1853 The U.S had sent a fleet of STEAM powered ships to trade with Asian nations Japan did not want to trade with the U.S, but they were INTIMIDATED They worked very quickly to industrialize and soon had the 6th largest fleet in the world. They industrialized because Distrust of THE WEST China lost the Opium War to BRITAIN 1853, steam, intimidated, the west, Britain

Inventions Coca Cola Steam Engine Flush Toilet Guillotine Bicycle Battery Light bulb Basketball Tin can Elevator brake Matches Microphone Typewriter Braille Plastic Ferris Wheel Dynamite Gum Jeans Traffic Light Toilet Paper Barbed Wire Refrigeration Dishwasher Escalator Zippers Vacuum Stapler Contact Lenses Submarine