1. The Industrial Revolution

2. INDUSTRIALIZATION C H A N G E S Transportation Family life
Reform movements

3. Transportation Railroads Used steam engines
-unified economies by linking regions

4. Railroads connected Europe

5. Changes in Europe
From farm to Factory

6. Changes to family life
Shift from the family working as farmers or craftsman to families working in factories
Child labor
Less time spent with family
Families moved from villages into towns and cities
Crowded, small apartments: Tenements
RISE IN CITY CRIME -Gangs

7. Family Life suffered Less access to fresh water and sunlight
Spread of diseases like cholera and typhus

8. For most children industrialization meant – Factory Work, shift work &
Child Labor

9. Social Reforms In England, Parliament passed laws
Banning women and children from working in the mines
Limited work hours to 10 hours per day
For safer working conditions
Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert worked to help the poor

10. Improvements to life in the cities
Municipal Reforms
Improvements to life in the cities

11. Municipal Improvements
Improved water supply, sewage system and trash collection

12. Sewer systems

13. Municipal Reforms
Public School Systems

14. City police forces to reduce crime
Municipal Reforms
Sir Robert Peel’s London “Bobbies”
City police forces to reduce crime

15. L A B O R R E F O R M S Workers organized UNIONS to get Better wages
Improve working conditions
Used STRIKES to achieve goals