The Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution

• Beginnings

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Review

• Life before and after worksheet.
• Other Revolutions?
• With a partner
• Brainstorm positives and negatives in industry.
• (4 minutes)

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Preview

• Today, you will answer
• What was the Industrial Revolution and why was it
  such a big deal?
• What caused the Industrial Revolution?
• Where did the Industrial Revolution start and why?

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The Industrial Revolution

• Definition A turning point in history that
  began in the mid-1700s in which people went from
  being rural farmers to urban workers.

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Causes of the Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural Revolution
• Population Explosion
• New Technology

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Agricultural Revolution

• What was farming like before this time period?
• Improvements in Agricultural Thinking
• Dikes
• Fertilizer
• Seed Drill (Jethro Tull)

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The Enclosure Movement

• Enclosure Rich landowners taking over and
  fencing off land formerly shared by peasant
  farmers.
• Why?
• Effects?

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The Population Explosion

• (1700-1800)
• Europe 120 million ? 190 million
• England 5 million ? 9 million
• Why?
• Declining Death Rates
• Agricultural Revolution
• Sanitation and hygiene improvements

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New Technology

• Sources of Energy
• Before the Industrial Revolution?
• After the Industrial Revolution?

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The Beginning

• Describe the nation of England at this point in
  history (mid 1700s).
• What do you think was needed for an industrial
  revolution to take place?
• Land
• Labor

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An English Revolution

• Why Britain?
• Resources
• Labor
• Capital
• Capital
• Money used to invest in business.

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The Textile Industry

• What is a textile?
• Cottage Industry
• Inventions
• Flying Shuttle
• Spinning Jenny
• Waterframe

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Factories

• Definition Places that brought together workers
  and machines in order to produce large amounts of
  goods.

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Transportation Revolution

• The Steam Locomotive
• 18301st Major Railway
• Liverpool to Manchester
• The Steamboat
• Robert Fulton (1807)
• Clermont

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The English Railway System
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Review

• With a partner
• What was the Industrial Revolution and why was it
  such a big deal?
• What caused the Industrial Revolution?
• Where did the Industrial Revolution start and why?