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Industrial Revolution 1700-1900
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PRIOR TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Harsh life— social change rare Cottage Industry Most people lived in small towns and villages 3 field system Enclosure
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Textile Industry Domestic System Began in Great Britain Population to support industry Factors of Production Land, labor, capital Flying Shuttle- John Kay James Hargreaves- Spinning Ginny Richard Arkwright- Water Frame
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Eli Whitney- COTTON GIN Interchangeable Parts - exactly alike and easily assembled or exchanged. Cotton Gin=1.5 million lbs to 85 million lbs in 20 years in US
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JAMES WATTS scotland IT ALLOWED FACTORIES TO RUN YEAR ROUND AND TO BE BUILT AWAY FROM WATERWAYS MORE EFFICIENT VERSION OF THE STEAM ENGINE THAT PROPELLED THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO THE NEXT LEVEL
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Fredrick Taylor Division of Labor - workers performed a specialized task on a product moved on a conveyor belt.
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BESSEMER & FULTON Henry Bessemer- process of producing steel from iron Called the Bessemer Process Robert Fulton- designed the first practical steamboat (CLEARMONT) His steamboat and the railroad industry open the worlds economy up
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STEAM DRIVEN LOCOMOTIVES RICHARD TREVITHICK ON A BET
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THE NEW SOCIETY Rise of the Middle class URBANIZATION Industrialization expanded the size, power, and the wealth of the middle class.
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Middle Class Lifestyles Men focused energy and time on work. Women on the house and raising of children.
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Middle Class Boys were sent to school. Daughters were expected to learn to cook, sew, and the household duties.
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Working Class Whole families worked in the factories and mills. Small children as young as 6 years old worked.
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Women Women could now hold jobs. Often in Textile mills. “Mill Girls”
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INDUSTRY IN THE US Samuel Slater: Father of the American Industrial Revolution Industrial spinning Wheel
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New Ideas Capitalist Ideas Laissez-faire - businesses operating without government interference.
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Laissez-faire Freedom from government controls would mean a growing economy with material progress for all people.
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Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations An economy works best when the natural forces of supply and demand operate. No government control.
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Adam Smith Smith’s ideas influenced economic thought and practice. By the 1850’s, Great Britain had adopted Smith’s ideas.
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Malthus & Ricardo Both opposed government aid to the poor. Malthus referred to Economics as the Dismal Science
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Malthus & Ricardo They believed that the poor could help themselves by working hard, saving, and having fewer children.
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Socialism The belief that the means of production, capital, land, raw materials, and factories would be owned by society.
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Socialism Every citizen takes care of each other The individual exists only as part of the group This is the basis of Communism
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Socialism Wealth could be distributed equally among all citizens. Karl Marx: Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx German Philosopher Proletariat (working class)— Bourgeoisie (Upper Class) History was a class struggle between the“Haves” and “Have Nots”
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Karl Marx Working class was the only true productive class. The working class would seized control from the middle class.
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Karl Marx The working class would then build a society in which the people owned everything. Formation of Communism
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Workers Unite Forming of Organized labor groups. AFL-CIO To improve working conditions and wages. REFORM LAWS: FACTORY ACT OF 1833—CHILD LABOR LAWS (PAGE 304-305)
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ROBBER BARONS Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller JP Morgan Jay Gould Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Darwin’s Theories in Business Survival of the Fittest Lower Class Exists to Serve the Upper Class Darwin’s Ideas of Evolution and the Strong Surviving are used as guidelines for the Industrial Giants of the day.
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It was these Industrial Darwinists that lead to the rise of the discontent in the Middle Classes of Europe and America The Expendable nature of the Laborer makes the ideas of Karl Marx and the Communist incredibly appealing to the common workers UNIONS ARE FORMED AND SEEN AS SOCIALIST DUE TO THERE STRIKE TACTICS
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MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT GREW AS A RESULT OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (Section 4 of chapter 10)
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Henry Ford Did not invent the automobile!! 1880’s Germany- Mercedes Benz Designed the use of the Assembly Line
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Samuel Morse Assembled a working model of the telegraph. Morse Code
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Guillermo Marconi Devised the wireless telegraph in 1895. This telegraph later modified into the radio
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Alexander Graham Bell Development of the telephone in 1876.
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Thomas Edison Invented the phonograph. Invented incandescent light-bulbs.
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Wright Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright - (1903) First sustained motorized flight Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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