1. Warm Up– November 2 1. What was the Old Regime in France?
Grab the handout and answer the following questions on a post it:
1. What was the Old Regime in France?
2. What was the goal of the French Revolution?
3. What kind of government did the National Assembly set up in France?
4. What was the Reign of Terror? How did this period lead to the rise of Napoleon as leader of France?
5. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England? (What advantages did it have that would allow it to start there?)

2. Unit 6: Enlightenment, absolutism and revolution
Industrial Revolution

3. Industrial Revolution Reading
Download the Industrial Revolution Reading under today’s date on my website and answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up:
1. How would a larger population help lead to the industrial revolution?
2. What was needed to meet the needs of the larger populations in Europe?
3. What two important advantages did Britain enjoy that helped them be the first in the Industrial Revolution?
4. Describe the living and working conditions in cities
5. What did each of the these countries (France, Belgium, Switzerland) specialize in during the Industrial Revolution?
6. How did workers attempt to reform the terrible working conditions that they were forced to work in? What improvement were they able to make?

4. Definition Shift from making goods by hand to using machines.
Greatly increased output of manufactured goods.
Began in England in mid-1700s

5. Why it Happened in England
Industrialization
Process of developing machine production of goods
Requires natural resources:
Water power and coal to fuel new machines
Iron Ore to construct machines, tools, and buildings
Rivers for inland transportation
Harbors from which merchant ships sail

6. Why it Happened
Factors of Production
Natural Resources needed to produce goods and services that the Industrial Revolution required
Includes land, labor, and capital (or wealth)

7. New Inventions Inventions Spur Industrialization
Textile Manufacturing – inventions helped increased production of wool, linen, and cotton
Examples: Flying shuttle and Spinning jenny

8. Improvements in Transportation
Watt’s Steam Engine
JAMES WATT
Made travel more efficient and faster by burning less fuel
Water Transportation
Boats, canals
Road Transportation
More and better improved roads helped make trade easier

9. Improvements in Railroads
Four major effects
Railroads spurred industrial growth by giving manufacturers a cheap way to transport materials and finished products
New jobs
Boosted England’s agricultural and fishing industries (transportation)
People encouraged to taking jobs in other towns

10. Economic Effects Creation of corporations
Businesses that sell stock - shares of ownership
Similar to joint-stock companies
Growth of middle class
Western Europe & America become richer than other nations

11. Social Effects Urbanization - growth of cities
Crowded, dangerous and unsanitary

12. Political Effects debate over which economic system is best
Capitalism vs. socialism/communism

13. Capitalism Property is privately owned
Businesses compete for customers
People invest to get profit

14. Capitalism Explained in Adam Smith’s book The Wealth of Nations
People work for their own good
Competition makes better products

15. Socialism Some property is owned by government
Government plans economy, provides services
Operates for everyone’s benefit

16. Communism Property owned collectively Articulated by Karl Marx
Wrote The Communist Manifesto
Predicted workers would revolt, produce goods cooperatively, share them equally

17. Industrial Reform Movement
Responded to negative aspects of industrialization
Workers formed unions
Group of workers who advocate for themselves
Use collective bargaining, strikes
Helped get minimum wage, ban child labor, limit hours
Free public schools
Women's suffrage, equal pay

18. TOD – November 2
Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up: 1. What shift occurred in how goods were produced during the Industrial Revolution? Where did it begin? 2. Which invention made travel more efficient and faster by burning less fuel? What was built to make water and road travel easier? 3. Describe the significance of Railroads 4. What effects did urbanization have on cities? 5. What is a major difference between how wealth Is distributed in Capitalism and Communism? 6. How did the Industrial Reform movement attempt to improve Industrialization?