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    Ch 19: The Industrial Revolution

    Today – Industrial Advances Create Powerful U.S.A.


    Positive Advances of Industry,
    Technology, and Innovation
    Analyze the positives and
    negatives of the Industrial
    Revolution.
    Was industrialization
    ultimately good for society?
    What items in this room were NOT
    made through industrial processes?
    Today it seems the whole world is
    ‘processed.’ It was not always this way.
    Video: Intro to the Industrial Revolution
    Key Events
    • The Industrial Revolution
    saw a shift from an economy
    based on farming and
    handicrafts to an economy
    based on manufacturing
    by machines and industrial
    factories.

    • The early conflicts between


    workers and employers
    produced positive effects for
    workers in modern society.
    • The I.R. replaced many
    handcrafted items with mass-
    produced items, many of which
    we still use today.
    The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain

    • The Industrial Revolution


    began in Great Britain in the
    1780s for several reasons.

    • Improved farming methods


    increased the food supply,
    which drove food prices Manchester, Great Britain
    down and gave families
    more money for
    manufactured goods.
    • The increased food
    supply also supported a
    growing population.
    “to make the men
    into machines that cannot err.”
    Video: Factory Work
    • Britain had a ready The Rhodes Colossus—Cecil Rhodes
    spanning "Cape to Cairo"
    supply of capital–
    money to invest–for
    industrial machines
    and factories.
    • Wealthy
    entrepreneurs were
    looking for ways to
    invest and make
    profits.
    • Finally, Britain had
    abundant natural
    resources and a supply
    of markets, in part
    because of its colonial
    empire.
    British Colonial
    Empire
    Video: The Cotton Gin
    The Spinning Jenny
    The only surviving example of the Spinning
    Jenny or “Spinning Mule.”
    • The cotton industry became even
    more productive after the Scottish
    engineer James Watt improved
    the steam engine in 1782 so it
    could drive machinery.
    • Steam power was used to spin
    and weave cotton.
    • By 1840 cotton A late version of a Watt double-acting steam engine

    cloth was
    Britain’s most
    valuable product.
    • Its cotton goods
    were sold all over
    the world.

    The 1817 engine in Birmingham, England


    James Watt

    “Watt” must he be thinking about?


    Watt?
    A Steam Engine… of course!
    The Ind Revolution in Great Britain

    • The steam engine drove


    Britain’s Industrial
    Revolution, and it ran on
    coal.
    • This led to the coal
    industry expanding. The
    coal supply seemed
    unlimited.
    • Coal also transformed the iron industry.
    • Iron had been made in England since the
    Middle Ages.
    • Using the process developed by Henry
    Cort called puddling, industry produced a
    better quality of iron.
    The Iron Bridge in Shropshire, England
    The Industrial Revolution in
    Great Britain (cont.)
    • Since they were an efficient way to move
    resources and goods, railroads were
    crucial to the Industrial Revolution. 
    • The first railroads were slow, but they
    developed rapidly. 
    • The Rocket was used on the first public railway
    line, which opened in 1830. 
    • The 32-miles of track went from Liverpool to
    Manchester, England. 
    • The Rocket pulled a 40-ton train at 16 miles per
    hour.
    The Industrial Revolution in
    Great Britain (cont.)
    • Within 20 years, trains were going 50
    miles per hour, an incredible speed for
    its time. By 1850, Great Britain had more
    than 6,000 miles of track. 

    • Building railroads was a new job for farm


    laborers and peasants. 
    • The less expensive transportation lowered
    the price of goods and made for larger
    markets.
    2 Industrial Revolution
    nd
    Claude
    "If the world
    Monet really looks
    like that I will
    If you could paint
    this well… you
    could make a lot
    paint no
    of “Monet.”
    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
    more!"
             
                                 -Claude Monet,
    The Second Industrial Revolution

    • Electricity gave birth to many


    inventions, such as the light bulb
    invented by Thomas Edison in the
    United States.
    • A revolution in communications was
    ushered in when Alexander Graham
    Bell invented the telephone (1876)
    and Guglielmo Marconi sent the first
    radio waves across the Atlantic
    (1901).
    Great Exhibition Hall – Hyde
    Park, England
    Organizing the Working Classes
    • Industrial workers formed socialist political
    parties and unions to improve their working
    conditions. 
    • In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
    published The Communist Manifesto.
    Manifesto 
    • They were appalled by industrial working
    conditions and blamed capitalism. 
    • They proposed a new social system. 
    • One form of Marxist socialism was
    eventually called communism.
    Organizing the Working Classes (cont.)
    • Marx believed world history was a history
    of class struggle between the oppressing
    owners of the means of production and
    the oppressed workers. 
    • The oppressors controlled politics and government. 

    • Government was an instrument of the ruling class.


    • Marx believed that society was
    increasingly dividing between the
    bourgeoisie (middle-class oppressors)
    and the proletariat (oppressed
    working-class),
    working-class each hostile to the
    other. 
    Karl Marx is NOT
    Santa Claus
    But, he was bringing gifts
    for the working class
    poor.

    Karl Marx
    proletariat = oppressed working-class

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