AGE OF REVOLUTION INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Opening Activity • I will assign each student one word from the list of 16 important terms from.
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AGE OF REVOLUTION INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Opening Activity • I will assign each student one word from the list of 16 important terms from the Industrial Revolution to define. • When everyone is finished you will stand up and give the rest of the class the definition you wrote. • Remember to write a definition that everyone will understand and that is appropriate for this topic Industrial Revolution • Before we talk about the Industrial Revolution we must first talk about the events that led up to the Revolution Agrarian Revolution • Definition: a change in the way food was produced Agrarian Revolution • Changes that occurred – Enclosed fields – Crop Rotation – Better Animal Breeding – New Machinery Agrarian Revolution • Enclosed Fields – MADE FARM WORK MORE EFFICIENT – Replaced many small strip farms with large field Agrarian Revolution • Crop Rotation – INCREASED CROP PRODUCTION IN EACH FIELD – Farmers would or grow a different type of crop on the same field • RESTORES NUTRIENTS Agrarian Revolution • Better Animal Breeding – MORE FOOD PRODUCED PER ANIMAL – Farmers only allowed their best animals to breed together Agrarian Revolution • New Machinery – MORE FOOD USING LESS WORKERS – Dikes to protect farmland from the sea – Use of fertilizer – Seed drill planted seeds in rows Agrarian Revolution RESULTS • More food produced using less farm workers – Former farm workers became available to work in factories – Extra food could feed the urban populations • Population of society grew tremendously INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION • A CHANGE in the way things were made INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION • Domestic System of making products – AT HOME – BY HAND – ONE PERSON – THINK YOU CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY???? INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION • Factory System of Making Products -IN A FACTORY -BY MACHINE -MANY PEOPLE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION • What a nation needs to have industry – Capital---MONEY – Labor Force—WORKERS – Transportation System---To get materials to the factory and the products to the market – Raw Materials--- examples coal, iron ore, wool, and cotton – Market---Place to sell your product INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION How industrialization affected society. • Urbanization –People moving into cities too quickly –Overcrowding –Unsafe living conditions INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION How Industrialization Affected Society?? • Working Conditions –Child labor- kids could be paid less –Long hours- 12-16 hour days –Dangerous Conditions- unsafe machines INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION How Industrialization Affected Society?? • Changing Social Roles – Women—either run the household or work long hours for little pay – Family—lower class family life suffered – Children---poor living conditions, child labor, unhealthy living INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION How Industrialization affected Society???? • Transportation-greatly improved – Better Roads – Canals and railroads were built – Steam Engine increased speed and options • Opened more MARKETS Reactions to the Industrial Revolution LIBERALISM VS CONSERVATISM Liberals Conservatives --want change --want stability (no change) --new republics --old monarchies --Laissez-Faire Economy --Nobles (gov’t) controls economy Reactions to the Industrial Revolution • Adam Smith – Wrote THE WEALTH OF NATIONS – Introduced LaissezFaire – Was he a liberal or conservative??? Reactions to the Industrial Revolution • 3 Natural Laws of Economics – Law of Self Interest—people work for their own good – Law of Competition—Competition forces people to make a better product – Law of Supply and Demand—Enough goods would be produced at the lowest possible price to meet demand Reactions to the Industrial Revolution • Thomas Malthus – Social Conservative – Argued that population tended to increase more rapidly than the food supply – Therefore without wars and epidemics to kill off the extra people, people were destine to be poor and miserable. – “poor people would continue to suffer as long as the population keeps rising” Reactions to the Industrial Revolution • Charles Darwin – Wrote THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES-theory of Evolution – “Natural Selection”-survival of the fittest Reactions to the Industrial Revolution • Social Darwinism: theory of Evolution is applied to the following –Business: justification for owners to do whatever they had to do –Nationalism: in warwin or be defeated –Society: excuse for racial prejudice Reactions to the Industrial Revolution • Socialism: economic systemsociety owns business; everyone shares work and profits Reactions to the Industrial Revolution • Utopian Socialism – When people wanted to create self-supporting societies – Everyone shared everything – Goalpeaceful, equal society Reactions to the Industrial Revolution • Marxist Socialism – Begun by Karl Marxwrote Communist Manifesto – Workers of the world should unite and overthrow business owners through revolution – Goalend capitalism, create a socialist (CLASSLESS) society !!!!NOTICE!!!! • Skip to the part of the notes under GLOBAL MIGRATIONS!!!! Global Migrations SOCIAL CAUSES • Population Growth • Poor Living Conditions • Poor Working Situations Global Migrations POLITICAL CAUSES • People were leaving monarchies and wanting democracies Global Migrations IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION • Expanded the search for raw materials • Expanded the creation of new markets