1. February 1nd Rise of Imperialism
Grab a Imperialism Packet from the front
On pg. 2 in your packet, copy down these questions – make sure you leave space to answer the questions:
What was life like before the Industrial Revolution?
What started the Industrial Revolution?
How did the Industrial Revolution change people’s lives?
What was the price of industrialization?
Rise of Imperialism

2. The Industrial Revolution
Questions to answer as you watch:
What was life like before the Industrial Revolution?
What started the IR?
How did the IR change people’s lives?
What was the price of industrialization?

3. Industrialization begins in Britain, leads to…
Improvement in technology:
Factories made better products in large numbers faster
Transportation  steam ships, trains, automobiles
Communication  telegraph, telephone
Daily life  electricity, light bulb, better medicine (penicillin, anti malaria meds…)
Weapons  machine guns

4. Industrialization leads to…
Need for more resources to manufacture products
Need for new markets in which to sell manufactured products
Investment opportunities

6. A new idea arises: Social Darwinism
Humans have developed through competition and natural selection and only the strongest survive. This theory is then applied to society and economics:
The rich and powerful are the hardest working and naturally more successful
The poor deserve to be in that position because they don’t work hard enough
European nations have the right to dominate & take over non-European people/nations because they are more industrialized and “advance”

7. All of this will lead to: imperialism