1. 11/2 Focus: Important Terms: Do Now:
Rapid industrialization brought plentiful jobs, but it also caused unhealthy working conditions, air and water pollution, and the ills of child labor. It also led to rising class tensions, especially between the working class and the middle class.
Important Terms:
Urbanization
Do Now:
Identify the industry that first became industrialized.

2. The Industrial Revolution
Impact of the Industrial Revolution

3. Urbanization Urban Suburban Rural
Urbanization refers to the movement of people into cities
Results in the growth of the city

4. Urbanization Factories were built near energy sources
Water
Coal
Cities grew rapidly near these factories

5. People move to cities looking for work Better pay than farming
Enclosure Movement
People move to cities looking for work
Agrarian Revolution
Population Growth
Rapid urbanization
Need for workers
Factory System
Better pay than farming

7. Urbanization Rapid growth of cities created problems
working class lived in crowded buildings
High crime rates
Lack of sanitation or sewage systems
Garbage piled in streets
Open sewers
Spread of disease

8. Working Conditions Workers had to work long hours
12-16 hours a day
Boring work; repetitive
Unsafe/dangerous working conditions
Mine work most dangerous
No government assistance to workers injured on the job

9. Working Conditions
Child Labor was very common

11. Commercial Revolution Industrial Revolution
New Class Structure
Developed with expansion of trade and growth of cities during high middle ages
Commercial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Middle Ages
Nobles
Nobles
Upper Class
Upper Middle
Middle Class
Peasants
Lower Middle
Peasants
Poor

12. New Class Structure Upper class Rich industrial and business families
Wealthy landowners

13. New Class Structure Upper Middle Class Lower Middle Class
Business owners and managers of factories
Professionals (Ex: doctors/lawyers)
High standard of living
Lower Middle Class
Comfortable standard of living
Shop owners, office workers, skilled workers

14. New Class Structure Poor Working Class Factory workers and peasants
Harsh living and working conditions

15. Points for Discussion
How did Industrialization lead to urbanization?

16. 10/20 Focus: Important Terms: Do Now:
The Industrial Revolution contributed to rising class tensions, especially between the working class and the middle class.
Important Terms:
Complexity
Do Now:
Explain how industrialization led to urbanization.