One Slide Projects

David Ricardo
- didn't want the working class to escape poverty
Monopolies and Regulations
- if there are too many businesses, other companies would not be able to compete and prosper
Telephone
- 1876 inspired by Morse Code, big invention progressed
James Watt and the Steam Engine
- improved steam engine by having less waste of energy, improved power, and efficiency
The Second Agricultural Revolution
- 18th century improved quality and quantity of farm products (crop rotation, mixing soils, Dikes)
Enclosure System
- rich land-owners would take over land formerly shared by peasants
- farm laborers thrown out of work and forced off land
Darby Family and Iron
- new ways to produce iron
- coal to smelt iron (less expensive, better quality)
Capital, Enterprise, and Entrepreneurs
- invest in enterprises and manage financial risks in starting businesses
Putting-out System
-raw cotton distributed to families to spin into thread
Stench, Sickness, & Urbanization
- rapid urbanization > go to city to work, no place to live
- no sanitary place to live (diseases spread)
The Industrial and Working Classes
- working> owned and operated factories, mines, railroads
Factory Workers & Conditions
- treated with disrespect, harsh conditions
- owners only cared for profit and exploited workers
Miners Conditions
- more coal and iron but worse conditions
- flooding, explosions, collapsing tunnels, lung disease
Thomas Malthus
- British economist thought population rising would lead to food supplies stopping
Marxism
- idealistic views of Communism by Marx and Engles
- a redibution of wealth and equalizing social status
Economic Systems
- capitalism - allows individuals to exchange things
- central government - planned by government
- mixed economy - free enterprise and socialist characteristics
Centers of Industry in 1871
- an increase of manufacturing
Henry Bessemer and Founding of Steel
- steel better than iron since its stronger and lighter than iron making it easier to transport
Michael Faraday and Thomas Edison
- Faraday created simple electric motor and a dynamo
- Edison made electric light bulb
Interchangeable Parts and Assembly Line
- identical parts can replace each other
- belt that moves parts of a product
Sidewalks, Sewers, Skyscrapers, and Slum Conditions
- paved streets made urban area livable
- sewage made cities healthier
- urban life for poor - crammed into single room
Labor Unions Begin To Grow
- associations of workers dedicated to maintaining safer work environments
- professional standards for members
Causes and Effects of the Industrial Revolution
Causes
- population growth
- Improved technologies
- Strong, stable governments
- new sources of energy
Effects
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Lure of City/Standards of Living
- measures quality and availability of necessities and comforts in a society
Electricity Changes the World
- advanced technologies

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How the Other Half Lives

1. Sunlight and fresh air because you only get a tiny bit of each since its so tightly packed in the tenement.
2. You would hear coughing and panting. You would smell stench and poison. You would see thirst and hunger.
3. The clothes lines represents the wanting to be honest, pure, and clean.
4. 1. Caged living space
2. Unclean necessities
3. A strip of canvas for a bed.
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Child Labour in England

1. They start working at around 7 or 8 years old and their work day is 11 and a half hours.
2. The advantage is that children are healthy and can work longer cause they have a lot of energy.
3. He responds by saying that the children are sent to school for an hour after they've finished their work.
4. It would never happen because women will have no interest in mistreating them because women bear children and they know what its like to have one.
5. Consumption is tuberculosis and he rationalized this by consumption was the disease of the English.
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Engles Reading and Questions

1a. The railways opened the districts up for people to see.
1b. He feels that they are filthy and disgusting because it has not been exposed.

2. He feels that the Industrial Revolution is effective but has negative sides to it.
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The Industrial Revolution

Why did Industrialization begin in England first?
-"Workshop of the World"
Metals, Woolens, & Canals
Canal: man made river -->networks
Early Canals
Britain's earliest transportation infrastructure
Mine & Forge (1840-1880)
More powerful than water is coal.
More powerful than wood is iron.
Innovations make steel feasible.
-"pudding" (1820)- "pig iron"
-"hot blast" (1829)- cheaper, purer steel.
-Bessemer process (1856)- strong, flexible steel.
Child Labor in the Mines
Child "hurriers"
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Industrial Revolution Warm Up

1. The Industrial Revolution took place in the United States and Europe
2. The Industrial Revolution took place from 1760 to 1914.
3. The Industrial Revolution was "industrial" since they became urban and built factories all around.
4. The Industrial Revolution was a "revolution" because there were so many new ideas and changed their way of life.
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"Dear Libya"

Dear Libya,
Now that you have successfully performed a revolution, set up a democracy establishing equal rights for citizens and fight your way out of poverty. Don't settle for mediocre. It will be difficult but it will be worth it. As Bolivar said "Liberty, says Rousseu, is a succulent morsel, but one difficult to digest..."
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