1. Intro to the Industrial Revolution

2. Industrial Revolution
True or False: The Industrial Revolution began in the U.S.
It began in BRITAIN around 1780
It changed EVERYTHING !!!!
Labor -Clothing -Transportation
Farming -Housing -Cooking
Caused by
Less INFANT MORTALITY
International Trade
SCIENTIFITC Revolution
More efficient farming
RAILROADS
Britain, 1780, everything, infant mortality, Scientific, Railroads!

3. What Was Needed For Industrialization to Occur
Technology
Machines taking over for PEOPLE AND ANIMALS
Necessity - “Necessity is the mother of invention”
MONEY
Labor force – people to do the work
RAW MATERIALS
Needed to build, invent, and produce goods
Markets – a place to SELL products
RAILROADS
Got the products to markets
Efficient farms – why??
People and animals, Money, Raw Materials, sell, Railroads

4. The Revolution Spreads
Britain, to protect their economic dominance, prohibited the EXPORT of machines and machine operators
In 1789, a factory employee (Samuel Slater) disguised himself and escaped to America where he opened a cotton mill in Rhode Island in 1793
The U.S contributed the ASSEMBLY LINE to the Revolution, which led to mass production which is
High WAGES
Low PRICES
Large OUTPUT
Export, 1793, assembly line, wages, prices, output

5. Japan and the Revolution
The Industrial Revolution reached Japan in 1853
The U.S had sent a fleet of STEAM powered ships to trade with Asian nations
Japan did not want to trade with the U.S, but they were INTIMIDATED
They worked very quickly to industrialize and soon had the 6th largest fleet in the world.
They industrialized because
Distrust of THE WEST
China lost the Opium War to BRITAIN
1853, steam, intimidated, the west, Britain

6. Inventions
Coca Cola Steam Engine Flush Toilet Guillotine Bicycle Battery Light bulb Basketball Tin can Elevator brake Matches Microphone Typewriter Braille Plastic Ferris Wheel Dynamite Gum Jeans Traffic Light Toilet Paper Barbed Wire Refrigeration Dishwasher Escalator Zippers Vacuum Stapler Contact Lenses Submarine