1. 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)

2. 2.1 Innovation Boosts Growth
The IR began in the 1700s
British textile industry
1st IR= coal, iron, & steam power
2nd IR=1850s, steel, oil, & & electricity

3. First Factories
Textile factories in Britain

4. American Industry Grows
Civil War
Make goods faster & more efficiently
Gov’t encouraged immigration
Demand for labor
Natural Resources
Coal mines
Forests
Iron ore
Riverways

5. Workforce Grows Population change Push & Pull factors
Europeans & Asians
Push & Pull factors

7. (Answer in complete sentences!)
Analyze the graph:
Discuss with a partner then answer individually on a separate sheet of paper to be turned in:
(Answer in complete sentences!)
1. What is this graph showing?
2. What does this tell you about changes in history?
3. What role did the IR play?
4. Do you see any problems that could come with this?

8. Free Enterprise Encourages Rise of Entrepreneurship
1868,Horatio Alger
Ragged Dick or Street Life in New York
Rags to Riches
“Ten dollars a week was to him a fortune… Indeed, he would have been glad, only the day before, to get a place at three dollars a week…Then he was to be advanced if he deserved it. It was indeed a bright prospect for a boy who, only a year before, could neither read nor write…”

9. Free Enterprise Encourages Rise of Entrepreneurship
People who build and manage businesses or enterprises
Invest time, $
Risk own livelihood
Free Enterprise
Freedom to run a business with minimal regulation
Compete amongst themselves

10. Laissez-Faire Policies
Gov’t encouraged Laissez-Faire
Allow businesses to operate under minimal regulation
Strong private property rights
Provided predictability & security
Lead to growth of industries
Gov’t imposed protective tariffs

11. Innovation Drives Economic Development
Entrepreneurship, competition & free enterprise
Patents
From fed. Gov’t, give you exclusive right to develop use & sell invention for a set period fo time

12. Henry Bessemer
Steel: lighter, harder & more durable than iron

13. Communication
Samuel F. B. Morse
1844
1865

15. Communication
Alexander Graham Bell
1876
Guglielmo Marconi
1890's

16. Transportation

17. Transportation
Orville & Wilbur Wright
American bicycle makers
1903

18. Transportation

19. 27 country had delegates involved
1884
Standard Railway Time
27 country had delegates involved

20. Electricity Thomas Edison, 1870s Menlo Park > 1,000 patents
Nikola Tesla

21. South lags behind Dependence on one crop Boll weevil
Cash crops: cotton, tobacco
During Civil War, Europeans found new suppliers
Dependence on one crop
Boll weevil