1. Bellringer Page 65: Write down the answers to the following questions on a paper titled “Bellringer 1/4/12”: 1. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England? 2. What was the Industrial Revolution? 3. What was the Agricultural Revolution? 4. What were cottage industries? BJOTD: Did you hear about the plumber who worked on top of a skyscraper?

2. Objectives SWBAT: use primary source documents to investigate the positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution

3. The Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution

4. Working Conditions and Wages

5. Positive Negative

6. Additional Notes Labor Unions: groups that worked together to help improve conditions for workers Unions would organize strikes to demand changes Collective bargaining: workers and management worked together to find a compromise

7. Child Labor

8. Positive Negative

9. Additional Notes Reforms were passed in the mid-1800s to reform child labor Factory Act of 1833: – 9-12 years old—less than 8 hours – 13-17 years old—less than 12 hours 1919: Child Labor Law and Minimum Wage Laws

10. Changing Role of Women

11. Positive Negative

12. Additional Notes Although women were treated poorly, they often joined unions to fight for their rights. Women fought for the right to vote (suffrage) by the end of the 19 th century.

13. Conditions in the Coal Mines

14. Positive Negative

15. Urbanization: the movement from rural to urban areas

16. Positive Negative Additional note: this caused the rise of pollution!

17. Education

18. Positive Negative

19. Changing Class Structure

20. Positive Negative

21. Industrial Production

22. Positive Negative

23. Additional Notes Inventions: – Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin – James Watt and the Steam Engine – James Hargreaves and the spinning jenny – Robert Fulton and the Steam Engine Movement spread from GB to Europe and then the USA – Slavery was ended first in GB too, then in USA in 1865

24. Modern Inventions

25. Positive Negative

26. Processing Overall, do you feel that the Industrial Revolution helped or harmed society as a whole? Defend your answer.