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Content Obj: Content Obj: Describe the social and economic effects of industrialization and urbanization. Essential Question: Was the overall impact of industrialization positive or negative for society? Language Obj: Students will discuss main ideas and record key vocabulary
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Review for quiz Reread notes Box key vocabulary Circle most important main idea Homework!
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Setting the stage Led to better quality of life for most but in the beginning had massive human suffering Pros vs. Cons New jobspollution higher wages unhealthy working conditions Heat homeschild labor Buy clothesclass tensions Buy food Industrialization changes life
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Change in life Move from rural areas to cities early 1800’s Caused by growth of factories Rapid population change 1800 – 1850 European cities of 100,000 inhabitants rose from 22 to 47 Urbanization – the growth of cities and the migration of people to them It made population grow faster than housing supply Industrialization changes life
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Factories built close together Built near sources of energy Coal and water Factors of productions- land, labor, and capital London Most important city Large labor pool Population - 1 million Factories and industrial centers Create one question about Factories during the Industrial Revolution.
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Birmingham and Sheffield Iron smelting centers Leeds and Manchester Textile manufactories Liverpool and Manchester Center of Britain's cotton industry Manchester grows 45,000 in 1760 to 300,000 by 1850 Factories/ Industrial Centers
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Grew so fast: No development plans or sanitary codes Lacked adequate Housing Education Police protection Unpaved street filled with garbage and no drains Illness caused by living conditions contributed to the shorter lifespan of those living in cities as opposed to those in the country Cholera 1842 life span 17 yrs compared to 38 in the country Living Conditions Elbow Buddy: Ask your neighbor how the living conditions would have been in your Growing Pains city?
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You went down one step even from the foul area into the cellar in which a family of human beings lived. It was very dark inside. The window-panes many of them were broken and stuffed with rags….the smell was so foul as almost to knock the two men down…. They began to penetrate the thick darkness of the place, and to see three or four little children rolling on the damp, nay wet brick floor, through which the stagnant, filthy moisture of the street oozed up. Elizabeth Gaskeel
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Visit to London Reading Recall. Two take aways?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_5bZwNicvY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_5bZwNicvY 14 hrs a day 6 days a week sim to farm workers No change with season like farms: Repetitious Dangerous Boilers explode and Belts catch limbs Few had adequate light Coal mines 10 yr shorter life span incredibly dangerous Women and children – cheap labor Working conditions
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Class Tensions Though most were poor the IR created great wealth Middle class: social class made up of skilled workers, professional, business people With new wealth they welded political and social power landowners and aristocrats looked down on middle class Working class: day laborers/ factory workers Initially given jobs but later put out of work due to machine production and laborers roited
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Elbow Buddy Interview: Which of the following effects is the most significant?
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Based on the excerpt and the information discussed in class. Write a letter home as if you were a young boy or girl working in the textile mills or in the coal mines. Describe the working conditions, the hours, what you feel, what you see. The letter should be written from your personal point of view. Must include vocabulary and specifics of conditions Letter Home Activity
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Quick-Write What can be done to reduce child labor and unsafe working conditions today? http://www.unicef.org.nz/page/139/Whatcanbedoneab outit.html http://www.unicef.org.nz/page/139/Whatcanbedoneab outit.html Extra Credit: Create a brochure about child labor List three current issues/ problems going on with child labor (three paragraphs) Offer a solution/explanation of how to stop these injustices (one paragraph)
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