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Early Inventions of the First Industrial Revolution
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Flying Shuttle
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Flying Shuttle
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The Old Method – the Spinning Wheel
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The New Method – The Spinning “Jenny”
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The Power Loom
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The Steam Engine
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The Earliest Locomotive
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Industrial Revolution
Transportation
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Transportation John MacAdam
Roads were improved through the Macadam surfacing
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Transportation -- Canals
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Transportation -- Railroads
Richard Trevithick George Stephenson
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Transportation – The Effects of Expansion of Railroads
1. cheap transportation for manufactured goods 2. jobs 3. transport for perishable goods 4. travel became a common experience
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Industrial Revolution
Working and Living Conditions
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Working and Living Conditions
1. The population went from rural to predominantly urban. 2. The urban environment . . . full of filth lacked sanitation unhealthy and dangerous conditions
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Working and Living Conditions
People received wages rather than grow crops Life was scheduled by the factory, not the seasons Work was monotonous and dangerous
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Working and Living Conditions
Child labor (as young as seven) was common
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Working and Living Conditions
The average life span among factory and mine workers declined – to 17
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Economic Results The Middle Class grew But The difference between the wealthy and the poor increased and caused great tensions
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Responses to the Industrial Revolution
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Responses to the Industrial Revolution
Socialism: the belief that productive resources should be owned and controlled by the society as a whole. There should be no personal property
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Responses to the Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx – The Communist Manifesto Proposed “Scientific Socialism” (Marxism) Claimed that factory owners (bourgeoisie) were stealing from the working class (proletariat)
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Responses to the Industrial Revolution
Karl Marx – Eventually the proletariat would violently overthrow the bourgeoisie A socialist society would be established where all profit would be shared equally
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Responses to the Industrial Revolution
Utopian Socialism Ex: Robert Owen Built a factory community with schools, decent homes (New Lanark) Shared profits with workers
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Responses to the Industrial Revolution
Labor Unions organizations of workers who seek to gain better wages and better conditions Through the use of strikes At first they were seen by government as an interference to business and put down violently Eventually they were crucial in improving the lives of workers
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