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Industrial Revolution
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Industrial Revolution Overview A time of greatly increased output of machine-made goods drastically changing the way people lived and worked Began in ENGLAND but quickly spread through Europe and to the US
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Industrial Revolution Causes Agricultural Revolution ENCLOSURES Forced small farmers off land to create large farms Done to INCREASE PRODUCTION as population increased Forced small farmers to the cities Crop Rotation Rotation of crops to different fields each season produced HIGHER crop amounts
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Industrial Revolution Causes Scientific Revolution Scientific discoveries, new machines, printing press, exploration, etc.
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Industrial Revolution Why England? Large population of workers due to enclosure Abundant natural resources Water power Coal and iron ore Rivers for inland trade Many harbors for international trade Political/Economic Stability Isolated from European wars Parliamentary system successful for hundreds of years Parliament monetarily supported entrepreneurs Financially successful colonies with abundant resources
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England 1701 & 1911
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Industrial Revolution Effects Greater need to move goods TRANSPORTATION rapidly improved Better roadways, canals, tunnels, etc. Steam engine Steam boats Railroads Extensive systems become necessity Factory engines
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Locomotives
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Industrialization
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Industrialization Overview Process of SOCIAL and ECONOMIC change that modernizes a human group Social change and economic development are closely related with TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
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Urbanization
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Industrialization Effects of Industrialization GROWTH OF INDUSTRIAL CITIES Factories for efficient production Urbanization: rapid movement to cities POOR LIVING CONDITIONS Small cities became too big too fast Poor sanitary conditions Insufficient housing, education, security Air and water pollution
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Living Conditions: Tenements
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Slums of Urbanization
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Industrialization Effects of Industrialization (cont.) POOR WORKING CONDITIONS 14 hour days, 6 days/week, poor pay Workers had to keep up with machines Child Labor
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Child Labor
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Poor Working Conditions
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Industrialization Effects of Industrialization (cont.) Class Tension Rise of middle class Upper-middle class factory owners and merchants grew wealthy and influential in politics Lower-middle class factory foremen, skilled tradesmen, supervisors lived comfortably Many living in extreme poverty and working class begins to replace peasant class Aristocracy resents upper-middle class Being pushed out of power Workers resent upper-middle class Gap between classes getting larger
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