The Industrial Revolution

 The Commercial/Consumer Revolution  Increase in demand for consumer goods and services.  Why?  How does this cause the Industrial Revolution?

 Great Britain  Led the Consumer Revolution ▪ Why?  Led the Industrial Revolution ▪ Why?

 Began in the textile industry  New Inventions  The Spinning Jenny (James Hargreaves—1765)  The Water Frame (Richard Arkwright—1769)  The Power Loom (Edmund Cartwright—1780’s)  The Steam Engine

 The Industrial Revolution initially occurred in the country/cottages.  Growth of cities occurs in the late 1700’s as a result of the Industrial Revolution.  Urban Classes  Upper classes  Middle Class  Artisans

 Most Jews lived in Eastern Europe  The “Jewish Ghetto”  “Until the last two decades of the 18 th century, in every part of Europe…those Jews who remained loyal to their faith were subject to various religious, civil, and social disabilities.”