Industrial Revolution Spreads

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Industrial Revolution Spreads

• Belgium, France, and Germany?
• Continental System
• Technological Knowledge
• John Cockerill
• Government cost?
• Continental banks?

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United States Industrial Revolution

• American System
• Transportation
• Mark Twain
• Life on the Mississippi

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Ireland

• Catholics and Protestants
• Poverty
• Potato (3 x grain per acre)
• 1781 to 1845
• Population?
• 1845 to 1851
• The Great Famine
• 1 million
• 2 million

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• The Great Exhibition
• 1851, Hyde Park
• The Crystal Palace
• Prince Albert

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The Crystal Palace 2003
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18 pt. Cardinal Assignment

• Create an invitation to the Great Exhibition.
• This is to have been distributed in 1851 as an
  enticing advertisement

• Items to include
• Who, What, Where
• When, Why, How
• Quotes
• Graphic
• Historical Data!

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Industrial Society

• The New Industrial Middle Class
• The Working Class
• Standard of Living

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Changes in Industrial Conditions

• Trade Unions
• Robert Owen
• Luddites
• Chartism