1. Industrial Revolution
Revolution started in Britain
Agricultural and Technological Innovation (steam engine)
Available money (from textile industry)
Supply of coal and iron
Large labour force
What happened to the work force on the farms?

2. Industrial Revolution
Working Conditions for Working Class
Appalling condition
Low wages
Every member of family worked
Long hours (13-16 hours per day)
6 days a week, 12 months a year
Very cold or very hot
Smoke-filled air
Noisy, poor lighting
Workers injured
No Social Protection

3. Industrial Revolution
Living Conditions for Working Class
Growing population-homes were crowded
Pollution from factories close to homes
Unsanitary-no running water or sewers
No garbage collection, police, firefighters, schools or hospitals
Smoked filled rooms from wood stove
Contagious diseases (tuberculosis and cholera
Life expectancy short, mortality rate high
1 in 4 children died before age 5

4. Industrial Revolution
Effects of the Industrial Revolution
Country side lifestyle to urban lifestyle (built around factories and mines
Britain richest country in the world
Living and Working Conditions appalling so workers protested and demanded rights
Slow lifestyle-products made by hand to products made by machines
New transportation systems-trains, steam boats, etc.

5. Industrial Revolution
The demand for Rights
Workers fought for changes
Right to form unions
Ban of children in mines
Restricted work hours for children and women
Right to strike
Right to elect members of parliament by secret ballot
Social Programs (education, health care, etc.)

6. Imperialism and Colonization
Europe’s industrialization led to an increased need for energy sources and raw materials
In order to access these resources Europeans found their way into Africa which originally was inaccessible

7. Imperialism and Colonization
Factors in Colonization
Economic-raw materials, useful new markets
Demographic-new territory for Europe’s growing population
Political-extend global influence, nationalism, in competition for power
Cultural-spread western civilization, ‘civilizing mission’

8. Imperialism and Colonization
Scrabble for Africa
Berlin Conference-effort to avoid conflict over Africa
Divided Africa into new territories for Europe’s taking
Colonizers did not consider the way of life nor history of the territories when they divided
New borders caused chaos among locals

9. Imperialism and Colonization
Impacts of Colonization
Positive: ports, railways, technology, education, medicine, health, hygiene, modern agricultural techniques
Negatives: Africans were forced to work, forced to pay taxes, money earned from resources given to Europe not Africa, loss of limbs, death

10. Holocaust
Discrimination (Anti-Semitism) Hitler and Nazi’s elected in Germany -measures and laws designed to force Jewish population to leave -policies became harsher -Nuremberg laws prohibited businesses, marriages, removed German citizenship -Jewish individuals had to wear a yellow star

11. Holocaust
Ghettos -Jewish homes raided, all belongings taken from Jewish population - Jews forced into fenced or walled Ghettos -Food and work difficult to find/forced labour -Disease and starvation -Happened all over Europe

12. Holocaust
“The Final Solution” -forced to walk (death march) or transported by train to concentration/extermination camps -some killed immediately upon arrival -others forced into labour -millions died (gas chamber, experimentation, starvation, disease, gun violence, beatings, etc.)