1. Industrial Revolution

2. Industrial Revolution (1750-1850)
For thousands of years of civilization, most people lived and worked in small farming villages
Hand made tools, simples lives
By 1850, many country villages would grow into industrial towns & cities
A period when rural societies in Europe & America became urban/industrial
Farming, migration, population, energy (coal/steam engine), cotton gin (separated seeds from raw cotton)

3. Industrialization
Where did it start?

4. Effects of Industrialization
Urbanization
Factory workers
More goods, cheaper prices
Competition
Western power?

5. Energy Revolution
In the past, most energy for work came from? the muscles of humans and animals

6. Energy Revolution
In the past, most energy for work came from the muscles of humans and animals
1700s, steam engine
James Watt, 1764 improved it
Became vital source of IR
Began using core to smelt iron

7. First Factories
Textile factories in Britain

8. Inventions

9. Rise of Cities
Population growth
Fewer children

10. Tenements

11. Labor Unions Standard of Living Began to rise
The level of material goods & services available to people in a society
Began to rise

12. Assembly Line Early 1900s, new method of production
Used in factories, one person worked on each task along the line
Interchangeable parts
Identical parts that could be used in place of one another

13. Factory
Workers