1. Industrial Revolution
Unit 5
Industrial Revolution

2. Before the Industrial Revolution
All work was done at HOME (cottage industry)
Power was supplied by HUMANS and ANIMALS
Before the Industrial Revolution

3. During the Industrial Revolution
Began in England
England had:
Workers
Raw materials (rivers, coal)
Money
The first inventions had to do with:
Textiles and farming
The Factory System:
Most of the work was done by women and children
Worked 12 – 14 hours a day and 6 days a week
During the Industrial Revolution

4. After the Industrial Revolution
Most people lived in cities (Urbanization)
Work was no longer done by hand in people’s houses but in factories by machines
Power was supplied by steam and water
Cities were nasty
Population increased
People began to live longer
After the Industrial Revolution

5. Life Before the Industrial Revolution

6. Life AFTER the Industrial Revolution

7. Child Labor These boys worked in the mines Photo was taken in the early 1900’s The camera was invented in 1888

9. Look at their feet – no shoes

10. Most of the time the owners did not turn off the machines
Most of the time the owners did not turn off the machines. They made the children fix them while they were still running. The company saved money this way. If a child got hurt, they would just fire them.

11. Ways children died in the coal mines
A trapper, only 10 years old killed in an explosion.
A horse driver aged 11. Crushed by horse.
A driver, aged 14 fell off limmers and was crushed between the tubs and a door.
A token keeper aged 14. Crushed by surface wagons on branches.
A screenboy aged 12. Crushed by surface wagons.
A trapper aged 12. Crushed by tubs.
A driver aged 12. Horse fell on him.
A bank boy aged 11. Caught by cage.
A driver aged 12. Head crushed between tub top and a plank while riding on limmers.
A trapper aged 13. Head crushed between cage and bunton while riding to bank.
Tub Cleaner, aged 13. Fell down the shaft off a pumping engine.
Boy aged 14, drowned.
Boy, aged 7. Killed in an explosion.
Trapper , aged 9. Killed in an explosion.
Driver, aged 14. Crushed against wall by a horse.
Screen Boy, aged 15. Head crushed between a tub and screen legs ; too little room
Ways children died in the coal mines

12. What were cities like? Small houses / apartments
no sewers, went to bathroom in street
no trash service, threw trash in street
animals roamed streets freely
disease spreads easily--problems with hundreds of people dying from the flu and cholera

13. % of People living in towns before & after the Industrial Revolution
13%
83%
% of People living in towns before & after the Industrial Revolution

14. Population before and after the Industrial Revolution
7 million
37 mil
Population before and after the Industrial Revolution

15. Life Expectancy before and after the Industrial Revolution
Men
Women 33
Men
Women 48
Life Expectancy before and after the Industrial Revolution

16. Before
After
Babies died %
Babies lived 35%
Babies died %
Babies lived 85%
Numbers of babies that died at birth before and after the Industrial Revolution

17. The sun never sets on the British Empire