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The Industrial Revolution GLOBAL AIS: UNIT 14 FOR THIS UNIT, WHAT YOU NEED TO WRITE DOWN IS IN YELLOW
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Timeline FOR YOUR REFERENCE
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The Agricultural Revolution
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Agricultural Revolution: a change in the way food was produced Revolution Review What was the Neolithic Revolution? Change from hunting and gathering to herding and farming Name two political revolutions and their results. American: independence from Britain, inspired other revolutions French: overthrew monarchy, Napoleon came to power Latin America: independence from Spain, wealthy got wealthier
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Changes from the Agricultural Revolution Enclosed Fields Made farm work more efficient Crop Rotation Increased crop production in each field Better Animal Breeding More food produced per animal New Machinery More food harvested using less workers
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Results of the Agricultural Revolution More food produced using less farm workers The workers switched to working in factories The extra food could feed the urban population Which is important because more and more people moved to cities as industry grew Population of society grew tremendously
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The Industrial Revolution ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW FOR THE EXAM
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Industrial Revolution Industrial Revolution: a change in the way things were made Domestic System (old way) Making products using the following characteristics At home By hand One person Factory System (new way) Making products using the following characteristics In a factory By a machine Many people
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What A Nation Needs to Have an Industry Capital: Investment money Labor Force: workers Transportation System: To get materials to the factory and products to the market Raw Materials: especially coal (to run machines), iron ore, wool, and cotton (materials for products) Market: a place/need to sell your product Great Britain had ALL of those things.
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How Industrialization Affected Society Urbanization People moving into cities too quickly Overcrowding Unsafe living conditions Working Conditions Child Labor: kids were used because they could be paid less Long Hours: 12-16 hour days, often caused dangerous fatigue Farmers also work long hours. Why was it more dangerous in a factory? Dangerous Conditions: unsafe machinery, unsafe buildings
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How Industrialization Affected Society Cont’d Changing Social Roles Women: either run household or work long hours for little pay Family: lower class family life suffered Why? Children Poor living and working conditions Child labor Unhealthy living
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How Industrialization Affected Society Cont’d Transportation: greatly improved Better roads Canals and railroads were built Steam engine increased speed and options Why did transportation improve?
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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution LiberalismConservatism Wanted changesWanted stability (no changes) Supported new republicsSupported old monarchies Supported a Laissez-Faire economy (no government involvement) Nobles (upper class) controlled economy
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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution Cont’d Adam Smith Wrote The Wealth of Nations Introduced “Laissez-Faire” (hands off) Government shouldn’t get involved with business Thomas Malthus A social conservative “Poor people would continue to suffer as long as the population keeps rising” He disregarded the technology that made it possible to produce more food
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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution Cont’d Charles Darwin Wrote the Origin of Species theory of evolution Natural Selection able members of a species will survive (survival of the fittest) Social Darwinism (applying Darwin’s ideas to society) Business: justification for owners to do whatever they had to do Nationalism: in war win or be defeated Society: excuse for racial prejudice Socialism Economic System society owns business, everyone shares work and profits
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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution Cont’d Utopian Socialism When people wanted to create self-supporting societies Everyone shared everything Goal peaceful, equal society Marxist Socialism Begun by Karl Marx who wrote Communist Manifesto Workers of the world should unite and overthrow business owners through revolution How does that concept compare to political revolutions? Goal end capitalism, create socialist (classless) societies
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Industrial Revolution Rap! You’re going to love this! You’re going to love this!
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The Arts Romanticism (late 1700s) – a time of revolutionary dreams Emotion, not reason Reaction to the Age of Reason Give a characteristic of the Age of Reason. Logic, experiments, observation, science Emphasized fantasy, imagination, past glory
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The Arts Cont’d Realism (early 1800s): strove to show how the world really was Considered the harshness of the world Reaction to Romanticism How does realism correlate with the Industrial Revolution? Charles Dickens wrote this way Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol How are those stories realistic? Photography was not invented yet So how did realists show people how harsh the world was?
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The Arts Cont’d Impressionism (late 1800s) Looked to future dreams Reaction to Realism Based on an artist’s “impression” of real life
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Romanticism Impressionism Realism
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Attempts to Reform Society Sadler Report A report on child labor conditions Recognized child labor was not a good thing Led to new laws against child labor Education Public schools were created Got kids out of factories and into schools
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Attempts to Reform Society Cont’d Suffrage (the right to vote) At first, just male property owners Later all white males then women and non-whites
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Attempts to Reform Society Cont’d Labor Legislation: laws were passed to improve labor conditions Safety Conditions Less hours Safer machines and buildings Women and Children Less hours Less stressful types of work Trade Unions Organizations created to protect workers Legalized in the late 1800s Used strikes and protests to get what they wanted
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Global Migration Causes Social Causes Population growth: got too crowded Poor living conditions Poor working situations Political Causes People were leaving monarchies and wanting democracy Why? Improved Transportation New technologies improved the speed and efficiency of travel Creation of new colonies spurred the spread of populations to new areas
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Global Migration Examples Europeans coming to America for new opportunities Irish coming to America because of the Potato Famine
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