1. The Industrial Revolution (1700-1900)
Chapter 25
Sections 1-4

2. Activities and Doc Review
Text: P714-22) #3-5,7
Case Study: Manchester P (#1,2)
P729-33) #5-7
P734-40) #3,5,7
P737 Skill Builder #1,2
Role Play: Sadler Report
New Visions Global History: Causes/Effects of Indus Revolution
Agrarian Revolution
Causes of in Britain
Adam Smith and Capitalism (Multiple Choice Questions)
Effects of Industrialization (Urbanization) (DBQ)
Effects on Middle Class (DBQ)
Irish Potato Famine

3. I) Origins: Britain
Manchester
Liverpool Children

4. A) Building Blocks to the Revolution: Why England?
Food Advancements – larger crop yields with Enclosures (private land); Crop Rotation maintains soil nutrients
Power: availability of H20 and Coal
Resources: iron for machinery, harbors for trade, stable banks for $ in loans
Transport: Watt’s Steam Engine; McAdam’s Road (get it?); Railway

5. 6) Capitalism: using the law of supply/demand
5) The Corporation: sells “shares” of a company for partial ownership. This limits possible debt to only what you risk in buying shares. Allows corp. to raise more money/expand/grow products
6) Capitalism: using the law of supply/demand
Laissez-Faire: Gov’t allow people to run business’
free from interference (rules/regulations)
Invisible Hand: GREED!!
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6. B) Players and Reformers of the Revolution
Andrew Carnegie:
Adam Smith – father of modern economics and capitalism. theorized Supply and Demand Laws; “invisible hand” and laissez-Faire (See reading!). Private ownership of business
Thomas Edison –
Sam Slater – father of the American Indus. Rev.; designing early textile mills from memory
Karl Marx – father of socialism and directly opposes. Wrote
“Communist Manifesto” and cried out “workers of the world unite!”

7. C)Critical Advancements: The Clips
(Best Overview 4 min)
(Overview 2 min)

8. D) Positives/Negatives
Positives: middle class emerges/grows, mass-production drives down costs of food, clothes, healthier diets, economic growth = job growth, opportunities, standard of living (eventually) working conditions (eventually with start of unions)
Negatives: Class tensions, working conditions, living conditions, child labor, w (ages, disease (cholera), 14hrs/6 days/week
POS and NEG: Big business born: opportunity to share in profits, but corruptive of gov’t and impersonal – leading to poor treatment of people and environment.
Quote: P724 and Timeline of a Child Worker

9. The Sadler Report
Michael Thomas Sadler – investigations into working conditions spurs eventual change in the system.
What do we have in the U.S. today that protects the labor force?