1. Industrial Revolution

2. Industrial Revolution
The IR is when people stopped making stuff at home and started making stuff in factories.
Industrial Revolution

3. Cottage Industry

4. Factory system

5. Origins – Why England? Factories in England Government favored trade
Laissez faire- Free capitalism or the government had little part in the Economy.
Large middle class and working poor.
geography (a lot of rivers)
Everyone lived within 20 miles of navigable river
Tradition of experimental science

6. Capitalism
Imagine you are entrepreneurs or risk takers in a Capitalist economy.
Your Job- Create an idea for a business or product that you can sell to make a profit. Describe it on a sheet of notebook paper.
The best ideas will be rewarded just like they would be in a capitalist economy.

7. Cotton gin
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin removed the seeds out of raw cotton.

9. Steam Engine
Watt’s’s steam engine was not just a transportation device. It ran entire factories the way rivers used to.
Steamboats and railroads will improve transportation

10. Steam engine

11. Railroads

13. Canals
Canals are manmade waterways dug between 2 large bodies of water.
The Erie Canal was a short cut from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

14. Erie Canal 1825

15. Panama Canal
The Panama Canal was a shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or backwards).

16. Panama Canal

17. Telegraph
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph. It communicated using a series of beeps (Morse code).

18. telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

19. Robber Barons
Andrew Carnegie owned US Steel.

21. Robber Barons
John D. Rockefeller owned the railroads and the oil industries

22. Monopoly
Carnegie and Rockefeller ran their competition out of business.
A monopoly is when one company controls the entire industry.

24. Thomas Edison
The light bulb allowed factories to work at night.

25. Edison’s inventions
Motion picture camera

26. Phonograph

27. 1906

28. Industrial efficiency
Henry Ford learned that the less people had to move, the faster they would work.

29. Ford’s assembly line

30. The first cars were very expensive.

31. Model T
The Model T was the first car that middle class people could afford.
The assembly line lowered the cost of the Model T from $825 to $300.

32. Life in the Industrial Age
Overpopulated cities
Pollution
Unsafe and unsanitary working conditions. (Child Labor)

33. Rate the following inventions
Assembly line
Telephone
Cotton Gin
Light bulb
Motion picture camera
Phonograph
Steam engine
Airplane (Wright Brothers)
Next, name the inventor of each