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Industrial Revolution Britain first…why?
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Concept of cottage industry already thriving. Natural resources Colonies Agricultural production high with need for fewer workers Money to purchase and to be entrepreneur Strong central bank that could give credit
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What does the industrial revolution revolutionize?
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Transportation Communication Production Urban centers Use of energy
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Examples of inventions and effects?
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Spinning jenny (Hargreave): production Water frame (Arkwright): production and energy Steam engine (Watt): energy, transportation Coke and Cort’s puddling furnace: refined iron Railroads 1851 Industrial fair (Crystal Palace) shows England’s advances.
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Impact on society?
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Child labors Overcrowded cities Terrible conditions, danger, unsanitary, etc. Leads to many reformers New wealth with factory owners Malthus and Ricardo: ideas on population and wages.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_U4VGl1Jk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_U4VGl1Jk Child labor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUBPqCa-tiE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUBPqCa-tiE Chimney sweeps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7eLoPD700g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7eLoPD700g maids
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Many Laborers at first were orphans purchased from work houses
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Average Age of Death PlaceProfessional/GentryTradesmen Labourers Bethnal Green45 26 16 Bolton34 23 18 Derby49 38 21 Kendal45 39 34 Leeds44 27 19 Liverpool35 22 15 Manchester38 20 17 Wiltshire50 48 33
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Reformers in many forms Luddites Marx Methodists Marxists Owen and Utopians Labor Movement
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Success Factory Act 1833: Regulates child labor Mines Act 1842: Women and young boys not allowed underground in mines.
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Romanticism Impressionist Family structure changes with child labor laws
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Spreads to Europe mainland European nations begin to recruit engineers to illegally leave Britain and share technology. Nations believe that they must contribute to industry to build strength among own people and stay competitive internationally. Belgium, France, “Germany” and United States catching up.
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