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Key ingredients for Industrialization:
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Intro Industrial Revolution 1. What would your life be like without a car, computer, or mp3 player or CD player? 2. How has technology impacted your life? 2b – What are some of the negative aspects of technology. 3. What type of workforce do you need to produce such things as computers, software programs, automobiles etc?
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Intro Industrial Revolution 3. What type of workforce do you need to produce such things as computers, software programs, automobiles etc? 4. What types of natural resources/materials do you need to make the items listed in question #3? 5. What does the future have in store for us? What kind of changes do you think will happen in your life time?...what invention(s) will revolutionize the 21st century?
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Intro Industrial Revolution 6. What happened to those countries that were slow to industrialize in the 1700 & 1800s? Definition: A change from an agrarian (farming) society to one based on industry (producing goods for sale), which began to Great Britain and spread to the United States around 1800.
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Key ingredients for Industrialization: Natural Resources Access to coal, iron, and water Capital Financial Access to money (loans) Human Healthy mobile labor force. Property Land/buildings Goods Items things you need to make a product
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Key ingredients for Industrialization: Markets Need to be able to sell your products. Transportation Systems Ways to move goods efficiently. (Water & Rail)
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Why Great Britain? Factors Natural Resources Coal, Iron, Water. Large Labor force Improvements in food production (potato), mortality rate (death rate) decrease – population rate increase Capital Access to money, goods, property – established banking system.
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Why Great Britain? Factors Markets Vast empire of Colonies – forced to purchase British-manufactured goods. Government Support Government sponsored infrastructure projects (roads, canals) taxes lowered, patents protected. Social mobility Hope for the hard working poor; could move up in society.
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