1. 10/17 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. Points for Discussion
How did Industrialization lead to urbanization?