1. Industrial Revolution Topic 3 Economic Revolution
Mr. Carr
SS 9

2. Britain’s Gov’t & Policies
Who can’t vote?
Who are the tories?
Who are the whigs?
= Pro-business
Ordinary working people
Women
Rich Landowners (Conservatives)
Middle Class Business People (Liberals)
Influence the gov’t to make laws

3. Our Government: Conservatives DON’T HAVE TO COPY
Majority Gov’t
Party= Conservative Party of Canada
Leader = Stephen Harper
Low taxation for business owners
High taxation for ordinary citizens
Economy before people
Oil, natural resources
Christian morality (tradition)
Strong military
International involvement
Small federal gov’t
Strong Provincial Gov’ts

4. New Democratic Party DON’T HAVE TO COPY
New Democratic Party (NDP)
Opposition party, leader TBA
Openly socialist
Big gov’t (handles everything)
Lower taxation for the working class
High taxation for business owners
Support unions
Support minority groups
Support investment in “green” energy
Listen to the people
More funding to social programs
Education/health care
Less funding to military

5. Laissez-faire policy This is the birthplace of Capitalism What was it?
Why did it exist?
Business and Industry free from gov’t regulation
To increase competition
People will be more motivated to make their industries grow
This would create a wealthy and productive economy
This is the birthplace of Capitalism

6. Impact on workers Business Owner Mentality Worker’s wages?
Working conditions?
Other factors
Make lots of profit
As low as possible
Very poor
Cities flooded with unemployed people
Means there was always someone willing to work for less $$

7. Textile Industry What are textiles? What were textiles made from?
What impact did enclosure have on the textile industry?
Cloth products
Plant and animal fibers
Examples:
Wool from sheep
Silk from silk worms
Linen from lax
Made it possible to have large herds of sheep
Wool could be harvested cheaply

8. Textile Industry Demand for wool Cotton Industry
High in Europe and elsewhere
Britain acquired cotton from United States and India
Increased slavery in cotton fields

9. Inventions Why? Flying Shuttle What? Who? When? Spinning Jenny
To speed up process of making cloth
-to make weaving faster
-large looms operated by 1-2 people
-invented by John Kay
-1733
Weaving used up more yarn than could be produced
Hand cranked wheel meant that spinners could spin multiple threads at the same time
James Hargreaves
1764

10. Inventions Water Frame Why? What? Who? The Mule Why? Mechanized Looms
-to produce stronger thread
Spinning yarn using rollers (faster then the Jenny)
Richard Arkwright
To make weaving easier and faster
Combined methods from Spinning Jenny and the Water Frame
Samuel Compton
Looms were built larger
Factories built to house them
Labour needed to run them
Factories became dependent on power

11. What to do
Complete Steam, Steam Engine, Iron and Coal industries notes on your own
Independent activities for homework