Industrialization and Imperialism

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Industrialization and Imperialism
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Industrialization

• A period of technological advancement and social
  change
• Began in great Britain in the 1700s and spread
  to other countries in Europe
• In the 1800s the Industrial Revolution spread to
  the U.S. and other parts of the world
• Industrial Revolution began because of scientific
  and technological changes in the textile industry
• Good manufactured in a factory assembly line can
  be made quickly and in a uniform way.

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Economic effects

• Rise of factories and cities
• Changes in business structure to become bigger
• Modern farming methods needed fewer people to
  work the farms and could grow more produce
• Improved railroads and communication system

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Social Effects

• Fewer people worked on farms
• More people worked in factories
• Urban(city) areas grew
• Cities became crowded and polluted
• Caused a large movement of people from rural to
  urban areas
• Increased immigrants

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Political Effects

• In the U.S. in the 1800s poor working conditions
  led to the growth of labor unions
• Populism and progressivism movements to make
  reforms
• Child labor
• Cleaner and safer cities
• Public schooling
• Conservation of environment

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Imperialism

• Reasons for Imperialism
• Economics
• New markets
• Raw materials
• Social
• Christianity
• Language
• Way of life
• Political
• Power over rival nations

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Global Impact of Imperialism

• Japan became a modernized in its industry and
  military
• Chinese Political and Social Reforms
• Exploitation of African resources
• United States becomes a world power
• Gained territory from Spanish American War
• Colonized in far East, South Pacific, Caribbean
  and Central America

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Perspective of Colonizers

• Believed that their society would be better for
  the colonized
• Wanted to educate people in their language, way
  of life and religion
• Instituted new governments in the colonies

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Perspective of the ones Colonized

• Sense of inferiority and anger
• Loss of freedom and self-determination
• Become the labor to produce raw materials