Industrial Revolution

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Industrial Revolution

• It would be well if, in studying the past, we
  could always bear in mind the problems of the
  present, and go to that past to seek large views
  of what is of lasting importance to the human
  race.
• - Arnold Toynbee, Famous Historian that
  first described this time period as the
  Industrial Revolution

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Different Ideas Working Together
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Major Changes To Lifestyles

• Decline of farming lifestyle
• People working and living in horrible conditions
• Population moves to the cities
• Spread of Disease
• Beginnings of Social Mobility
• Improvements to Technology

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Industry Spreads

• Spread of British ideas
• - Belgium, Germany, North Eastern USA
• Ideas smuggled out of Britain
• Countries without the political stability, proper
  resources, or geography fall behind these
  countries.

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Industry spreads throughout the World
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Working and Living Conditions
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Different Views of the Industrial Revolution

• Factory Owner
• Rise of the Middle Class
• More wealth, political power, and status
• Proof of Englands superiority
• Overall very positive without many problems

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Different Perspectives on The Industrial
Revolution

• Reformer
• Critical of the new set of values
• Horrified by the living and working conditions
• Pushed for Unions
• Unions protect needs of workers
• See primary source activity

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Nobility- Old Wealth

• Some Old Nobility were anti Industrialist
• Looked down upon middle class factory owners and
  lower class factory workers
• Were content with Old Order- (feudalism)
• Some invested in factories, increasing wealth

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The Workers Perspective

• Worked long hours for little pay
• Unsafe working conditions
• Unhealthy living conditions
• No representation in government
• Started to form unions

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Horizontal Integration- One company owns a
variety of different forms of a similar product
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Vertical Integration- One company owns all means
of production from natural resource or raw
material to the finished product
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Vertical and Horizontal
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Open your textbooks to page 727 and answer the
following questions in your notes

• List 5 growing cities in England at this time.
• What do the graphs tell you about the population
  shifts in England at this time?
• What are some of the benefits of urbanization
  during the Industrial Revolution?
• What are some of the problems with urbanization
  during the Industrial Revolution?